cop vs mee-maw

cop

noun
  • A police officer or prison guard. 

  • The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine. 

  • A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee. 

  • A tube or quill upon which silk is wound. 

  • A merlon. 

verb
  • To steal. 

  • To adopt. 

  • To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take. 

  • To admit, especially to a crime or wrongdoing. 

  • To earn by bad behavior. 

  • Of a pimp: to recruit a prostitute into the stable. 

  • To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing. 

  • To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time. 

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 cop and mee-maw occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )