hotfoot vs shrewd

hotfoot

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. 

adv
  • Hastily; without delay. 

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

shrewd

adj
  • Artful, tricky or cunning. 

  • Sharp, snithy, piercing. 

  • Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters. 

  • Streetwise, street-smart. 

  • Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen. 

  • Nigh accurate. 

  • Severe, intense, hard. 

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