chary vs kiasi

chary

adj
  • Not disposed to give freely; not lavish; frugal, sparing. 

  • Careful, cautious, shy, wary. 

  • Excessively particular or fussy about details; fastidious. 

adv
  • Synonym of charily: carefully, cautiously, warily. 

kiasi

adj
  • Unwilling to take a chance for fear that something bad or unfavourable will happen; cowardly. 

noun
  • A kiasi person. 

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