jab vs pluck

jab

verb
  • To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion. 

  • To give someone an injection 

  • To deliver a quick punch. 

noun
  • A mild verbal insult. 

  • A medical hypodermic injection (vaccination or inoculation) 

  • A quick stab or blow; a poking or thrusting motion. 

  • A short straight punch. 

  • A vaccination, whether or not delivered via conventional injection. 

pluck

verb
  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

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