blench vs hotfoot

blench

noun
  • A deceit; a trick. 

  • A sidelong glance. 

verb
  • To deceive; cheat. 

  • To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil. 

  • To fly off; to turn aside. 

  • To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off. 

  • To quail. 

  • To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear. 

hotfoot

noun
  • The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. 

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

adv
  • Hastily; without delay. 

How often have the words blench and hotfoot occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )