merry vs wry

merry

adj
  • Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight. 

  • Festive and full of fun and laughter. 

  • Brisk 

  • drunk; tipsy 

  • Jolly and full of high spirits; happy. 

noun
  • An English wild cherry. 

wry

adj
  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

noun
  • Distortion. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

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