matey vs peeler

matey

noun
  • A dockyard worker. 

  • A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate. 

adj
  • Sociable or friendly. 

peeler

noun
  • A person who works by peeling the bark off trees. 

  • Something to be peeled. 

  • A person whose job it is to peel fruit or vegetable produce. 

  • An edible crab that is about to shed its shell. 

  • A household utensil for peeling fruit or vegetables. 

  • An ideal wave. 

  • Something that is peeling, about to peel, or prone to peeling. 

  • Someone who breaks horses. 

  • One who peels. 

  • A police officer. 

  • A plant which impoverishes the soil by demanding high value nutrients and so requires the use of fertilizers. 

  • An industrial food-processing machine for removing the peels or skins. 

  • potato peeler 

  • A stripper; one who disrobes for entertainment. 

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