flirt vs pluck

flirt

verb
  • To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions. 

  • To blurt out. 

  • To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. 

  • To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. 

  • To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with. 

noun
  • Someone who flirts a lot or enjoys flirting; a flirtatious person. 

  • A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion 

  • A tentative or brief, passing engagement with something. 

  • A brief shower (of rain or snow). 

  • An act of flirting. 

adj
  • Flirtatious. 

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 flirt and pluck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )