buttons vs mee-maw

buttons

noun
  • A policeman. 

  • A small South African plant of the genus Conophytum, with button-like succulent leaves covering its exterior. 

  • Synonym of marbles (“sanity; mental faculties”) 

  • The dung of sheep. 

  • A remote control. 

mee-maw

noun
  • A policeman. 

  • An exaggerated mouthing of a word. 

  • A two-syllable wail. 

  • A meaningless utterance. 

verb
  • To make a two-syllable wailing noise. 

  • To make exaggerated movements with the mouth so as to be understood above a loud noise, such as that of machinery. 

How often have the words buttons and mee-maw occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )