crook vs kink

crook

verb
  • To bend, or form into a hook. 

  • To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. 

  • To become bent or hooked. 

noun
  • A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 

  • A pothook. 

  • A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything). 

  • A bishop's standard staff of office. 

  • A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure. 

  • An artifice; a trick; a contrivance. 

  • A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal. 

  • A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds. 

  • A bending of the knee; a genuflection. 

adj
  • Ill, sick. 

  • Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard. 

  • Annoyed, angry; upset. 

kink

verb
  • To form a kink or twist. 

  • To laugh loudly. 

  • To be formed into a kink or twist. 

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

noun
  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

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