kiasi vs poor

kiasi

noun
  • A kiasi person. 

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

poor

noun
  • A poor person. 

  • The poor people of a society or the world collectively, the poor class of a society. 

verb
  • Synonym of impoverish, to make poor. 

adj
  • Deficient in a specified way. 

  • Of low quality. 

  • Inadequate, insufficient. 

  • Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek. 

  • Used to express pity. 

  • With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them. 

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