rough-and-tumble vs whaling

rough-and-tumble

noun
  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • An environment of rough activity 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

whaling

noun
  • A beating. 

  • The practice of spotting whales. 

  • The practice of hunting whales. 

How often have the words rough-and-tumble and whaling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )