hotfoot vs scorching

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. 

scorching

noun
  • The act or result of something being scorched. 

adj
  • very high. 

  • Very hot. 

  • Bitterly sarcastic; scathing; withering. 

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