hock vs mimic

hock

verb
  • To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly. 

  • To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. 

  • To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan. 

  • To cough while the vomit reflex is triggered; to gag. 

  • To produce mucus from coughing or clearing one's throat. 

noun
  • Installment purchase. 

  • Debt. 

  • A Rhenish wine, of a light yellow color, either sparkling or still, from the Hochheim region; often applied to all Rhenish wines. 

  • Meat from that part of a food animal. 

  • Prison. 

  • The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog. 

  • The last card turned up in the game of faro. 

  • Pawn, obligation as collateral for a loan. 

mimic

verb
  • To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. 

  • To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage. 

adj
  • Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry. 

  • Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. 

  • Mock, pretended. 

noun
  • An imitation. 

  • A comic who does impressions. 

  • An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. 

  • A mime. 

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