nark vs nightmare

nark

noun
  • An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others. 

  • A police spy or informer. 

verb
  • To stop. 

  • To annoy or irritate. 

  • To serve or behave as a spy or informer. 

  • To complain. 

  • To watch; to observe. 

nightmare

noun
  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

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