pricking vs twinge

pricking

noun
  • A nicking. 

  • The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. 

  • The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. 

  • A sensation that pricks. 

  • The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick. 

  • The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. 

twinge

noun
  • A pinch; a tweak; a twitch. 

  • A sudden sharp pain. 

verb
  • To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain. 

  • To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. 

  • To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. 

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