bicker vs pluck

bicker

verb
  • To brawl or move tremulously, quiver, shimmer (of a water stream, light, flame, etc.) 

  • To quarrel in a tiresome, insulting manner. 

  • To skirmish; to exchange blows; to fight. 

  • To patter. 

noun
  • A skirmish; an encounter. 

  • The process by which selective eating clubs at Princeton University choose new members. 

  • A wrangle; also, a noise, as in angry contention. 

  • A wooden drinking-cup or other dish. 

pluck

verb
  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

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