kicking vs saccharine

kicking

noun
  • A great loss or defeat; licking. 

  • The action of the verb to kick. 

  • A violent assault involving repeated kicks. 

  • A performance art that is a mix of dance footwork, acrobatic maneuver, and martial arts kicks, drawn from a variety of disciplines. Used in stage dance choreography and staged fight choreography. 

adj
  • Actively ongoing and enjoyable. 

  • Terrific, great (of clothes) smart, fashionable. 

  • Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking). 

saccharine

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

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