boy vs hum

boy

intj
  • Exclamation of surprise, pleasure or longing. 

verb
  • To act as a boy (in allusion to the former practice of boys acting women's parts on the stage). 

noun
  • A son of any age. 

  • A male of any age, particularly one rather younger than the speaker. 

  • A male servant, slave, assistant, or employee 

  • A younger such worker. 

  • A non-white male servant regardless of age, particularly as a form of address. 

  • Any non-white male, regardless of age. 

  • A male child or adolescent, as distinguished from infants or adults. 

  • A male (tree, gene, etc). 

  • A young male. 

  • A former low rank of various armed services; a holder of this rank. 

  • Heroin. 

  • A male animal, especially, in affectionate address, a male dog. 

hum

intj
  • Synonym of hmm: a noise indicating thought, consideration, &c. 

  • Synonym of um: a noise indicating doubt, uncertainty, &c. 

noun
  • Unpleasant odour. 

  • A phenomenon, or collection of phenomena, involving widespread reports of a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming, rumbling, or droning noise not audible to all people. 

  • Busy activity, like the buzz of a beehive. 

  • A hummed tune, i.e. created orally with lips closed. 

  • An often indistinct sound resembling human humming. 

verb
  • To produce low sounds which blend continuously 

  • To express by humming. 

  • To reek, smell bad. 

  • To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. 

  • To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly 

  • To buzz, be busily active like a beehive 

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