gossip vs knocker

gossip

noun
  • A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of a child. 

  • Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business. 

  • Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present. 

  • A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities. 

  • Idle conversation in general. 

verb
  • To talk idly. 

  • To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information. 

knocker

noun
  • One who defaults on payment of a wager. 

  • A person who knocks. 

  • A critic; one who disparages. 

  • A person who knocks (denigrates) something. 

  • A woman's breast. 

  • A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound. 

  • A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange. 

  • A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door. 

  • A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise. 

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