desperately vs hotfoot

desperately

adv
  • In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety; recklessly. 

  • extremely 

hotfoot

adv
  • Hastily; without delay. 

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

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

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

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