crock vs kink

crock

noun
  • Silly talk, a foolish belief, a poor excuse, nonsense. 

  • A piece of broken pottery, a shard. 

  • An old or broken-down vehicle (and formerly a horse or ewe). 

  • A patient who is difficult to treat, especially one who complains of a minor or imagined illness. 

  • A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container. 

  • A person who is physically limited by age, illness or injury. 

  • A low stool. 

  • The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut. 

  • Colouring matter that rubs off from cloth. 

verb
  • To put or store (something) in a crock or pot. 

  • To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage. 

  • To give off crock or smut. 

  • To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another. 

  • To break something or injure someone. 

kink

noun
  • An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. 

  • A convulsive fit of coughing or laughter; a sonorous indraft of breath; a whoop; a gasp of breath caused by laughing, coughing, or crying. 

  • A positive 1-soliton solution to the sine-Gordon equation. 

  • A tight curl, twist, or bend in a length of thin material, hair etc. 

  • A difficulty or flaw that is likely to impede operation, as in a plan or system. 

  • Peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste. 

  • A person with peculiar sexual tastes. 

verb
  • To laugh loudly. 

  • To be formed into a kink or twist. 

  • To form a kink or twist. 

  • To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. 

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