loon vs sap

loon

noun
  • A simpleton. 

  • A crazy or deranged person; a lunatic. 

  • A boy, a lad. 

  • Any of various birds, of the order Gaviiformes, of North America and Europe that dive for fish and have a short tail, webbed feet and a yodeling cry. 

  • An English soldier of an expeditionary army in Ireland. 

  • A harlot; mistress. 

sap

noun
  • A naive person; a simpleton 

  • A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. 

  • The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. 

  • The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. 

  • Vitality. 

  • Any juice. 

  • A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. 

verb
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. 

  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. 

  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. 

  • To gradually weaken. 

  • To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). 

  • To exhaust the vitality of. 

  • To pierce with saps. 

  • To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). 

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