pluck vs skitter

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. 

skitter

verb
  • To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry. 

  • To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering. 

  • To cause to have diarrhea. 

  • To suffer from a bout of diarrhea; to produce thin excrement. 

  • To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite. 

noun
  • Often skitters: the condition of suffering from diarrhea; thin excrement. 

  • A skittering movement. 

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