manage vs muff

manage

verb
  • To manage to say; to say while fighting back embarrassment, laughter, etc. 

  • To handle or control (a situation, job). 

  • To direct or be in charge of. 

  • To achieve (something) without fuss, or without outside help. 

  • To succeed at an attempt in spite of difficulty. 

  • To train (a horse) in the manège; to exercise in graceful or artful action. 

  • To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). 

noun
  • Manège. 

muff

verb
  • To mishandle; to bungle. 

  • To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. 

noun
  • A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet. 

  • The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds. 

  • A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe. 

  • A fool, a stupid or poor-spirited person. 

  • A woman or girl. 

  • An error, a mistake; a failure to hold a ball when once in the hands. 

  • A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm. 

  • Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muffin. See Thesaurus:vagina. 

  • A bird, the whitethroat. 

  • A muffin. 

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