dastard vs nightmare

dastard

verb
  • To dastardize. 

noun
  • A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak. 

adj
  • Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly. 

nightmare

verb
  • To have a 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. 

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