plod vs scutter

plod

noun
  • A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity. 

  • the police, police officers 

  • a police officer, especially a low-ranking one. 

verb
  • To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). 

  • To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. 

  • To trudge over or through. 

scutter

noun
  • A hasty run. 

  • Thin excrement. 

verb
  • To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter. 

  • To void thin excrement. 

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