kink vs writhe

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. 

writhe

verb
  • To twist, wring (something). 

  • To twist bodily; to contort one's self; to be distorted. 

  • To extort. 

  • To contort (a part of the body). 

noun
  • A contortion. 

  • The number of negative crossings subtracted from the number of positive crossings in a knot 

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