pretty vs sick

pretty

adj
  • Awkward, unpleasant. 

  • Cunning; clever, skilful. 

  • Fine-looking; only superficially attractive; initially appealing but having little substance; see petty. 

  • Of objects or things: nice-looking, appealing. 

  • Pleasant to the sight or other senses; attractive, especially of women or children. 

noun
  • Something that is pretty. 

  • A pretty person; a term of address to a pretty person. 

adv
  • Somewhat, fairly, quite; sometimes also (by meiosis) very. 

  • Prettily, in a pretty manner. 

verb
  • To make pretty; to beautify 

sick

adj
  • Tired of or annoyed by something. 

  • Having an urge to vomit. 

  • In poor condition. 

  • In bad taste. 

  • Very good, excellent, awesome, badass. 

  • Mentally unstable, disturbed. 

  • Failing to sustain adequate harvests of crop, usually specified. 

  • In poor health; ill. 

verb
  • To fall sick; to sicken. 

  • To vomit. 

noun
  • (especially in the phrases on the sick and on long-term sick) Any of various current or former benefits or allowances paid by the Government to support the sick, disabled or incapacitated. 

  • Vomit. 

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