hunch vs pluck

hunch

noun
  • A push or thrust, as with the elbow. 

  • A hump; a protuberance. 

  • A stooped or curled posture; a slouch. 

  • A hunk; a lump; a thick piece. 

  • A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen. 

verb
  • To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). 

  • To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back. 

  • To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone). 

  • To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. 

  • To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. 

  • To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess. 

pluck

noun
  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

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

  • Cheap wine. 

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

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • 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. 

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