pluck vs wallow

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. 

wallow

noun
  • An instance of wallowing. 

  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground. 

  • A kind of rolling walk. 

adj
  • Tasteless, flat. 

verb
  • To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud. 

  • To move lazily or heavily in any medium. 

  • To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner. 

  • To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish. 

  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically. 

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