pluck vs souse

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. 

souse

noun
  • The act of sousing, or swooping. 

  • Pickled scrapple. 

  • A pickle made with salt. 

  • The act of sousing; a plunging into water. 

  • Pickled or boiled ears and feet of a pig 

  • The ear; especially, a hog's ear. 

  • A heavy blow. 

  • The pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. 

  • A person suffering from alcoholism. 

verb
  • To fall heavily. 

  • To strike, beat. 

  • To steep in brine; to pickle. 

  • To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. 

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