muck vs tattle

muck

noun
  • Semen. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

verb
  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

tattle

noun
  • A tattletale. 

  • Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person. 

  • Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip. 

verb
  • To chatter; to gossip. 

  • Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody. 

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