flaky vs quicksilver

flaky

adj
  • Unreliable; likely to make plans with others but then abandon those plans. 

  • Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; likely due to malfunction. 

  • Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike. 

quicksilver

adj
  • Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial. 

verb
  • To overlay with quicksilver. 

  • To treat with quicksilver. 

noun
  • The metal mercury. 

  • An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering. 

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