overboard vs prodigal

overboard

adj
  • Outside of a boat; in the water. 

verb
  • To throw over the edge of a boat into the water. 

adv
  • Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat. 

  • Excessively; too much. 

prodigal

adj
  • Wastefully extravagant. 

  • Profuse, lavishly abundant. 

  • Yielding profusely, lavish. 

  • Having (selfishly) abandoned a person, group, or ideal. 

  • Returning or having returned, especially repentantly, after such an abandonment. 

noun
  • A prodigal person; a spendthrift; a wastrel. 

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