pencil-necked vs weakling

pencil-necked

adj
  • Insubstantial; weak. 

  • Having a very thin neck. 

weakling

adj
  • weak, either physically, morally or mentally 

noun
  • A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution 

  • A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength. 

How often have the words pencil-necked and weakling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )