left-handed vs quicksilver

left-handed

adj
  • Insincere or malicious. 

  • Of a coordinate system: not following the right-hand rule. 

  • Awkward or maladroit. 

  • Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right. 

  • Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand. 

  • Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise. 

  • Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo. 

noun
  • Left-handed people, taken as a whole. 

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 left-handed and quicksilver occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )