lampshade vs wink

lampshade

verb
  • To design or create lampshades. 

  • To wear an oversize top with skintight thigh-high boots and no leggings. 

  • To intentionally call attention to the improbable, incongruent, or clichéd nature of an element or situation featured in a work of fiction within the work itself. 

  • To adorn with one or more lampshades. 

noun
  • A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes. 

wink

verb
  • To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker. 

  • To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink. 

  • To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.) 

  • To close one's eyes. 

  • Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye. 

noun
  • Synonym of periwinkle 

  • A brief time; an instant. 

  • The smallest possible amount. 

  • A subtle allusion. 

  • An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. 

  • A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. 

  • Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”) 

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