put to vs spitball

put to

verb
  • To ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion. 

spitball

verb
  • To brainstorm ideas. 

  • To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it. 

noun
  • A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw. 

  • A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels. 

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