pluck vs schlep

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. 

schlep

noun
  • A “pull” or influence. 

  • A sloppy or slovenly person. 

  • A long or burdensome journey. 

  • A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person. 

verb
  • To carry, drag, or lug. 

  • To go, as on an errand; to carry out a task. 

  • To act in a slovenly, lazy, or sloppy manner. 

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