nicker vs pincher

nicker

noun
  • Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief. 

  • A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman. 

  • Pound sterling. 

  • The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored. 

  • nigger. 

  • A snigger or suppressed laugh. 

  • A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse. 

verb
  • To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse. 

  • To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh. 

  • To snatch or steal. 

pincher

noun
  • A person or thing that pinches, as in stealing; e.g. a thief or kleptomaniac. 

  • A person or thing that pinches, as in squeezing; e.g. a miser or penny pincher. 

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