lastborn vs whelp

lastborn

noun
  • The youngest child of a family. 

  • The youngest member of any company or organization. 

adj
  • Born last in a family; youngest in a the family. 

  • Younger than anyone else in a group. 

whelp

noun
  • An insolent youth; a mere child. 

  • One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship. 

  • A young offspring of a canid (ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub. 

  • A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog). 

verb
  • To give birth. 

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