jabber vs rant

jabber

noun
  • Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. 

  • One who or that which jabs. 

  • A kind of hand-operated corn planter. 

  • One who administers a hypodermic injection, especially of a COVID-19 vaccine. 

verb
  • To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble. 

  • To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. 

rant

noun
  • A wild, emotional, and sometimes incoherent articulation. 

  • A criticism done by ranting. 

  • A type of dance step usually performed in clogs, and particularly (but not exclusively) associated with the English North West Morris tradition. The rant step consists of alternately bringing one foot across and in front of the other and striking the ground, with the other foot making a little hop. 

verb
  • To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger. 

  • To dance rant steps. 

  • To disseminate one's own opinions in a - typically - one-sided, strong manner. 

  • To criticize by ranting. 

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