pitch-dark vs pitchy

pitch-dark

adj
  • Absolutely dark or black; as dark as pitch. 

pitchy

adj
  • Very dark black; pitch-black. 

  • Off pitch; out of tune. 

  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch. 

How often have the words pitch-dark and pitchy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )