muffin vs saccharine

muffin

noun
  • Term of endearment. 

  • Another word for a roll, bap or cob, even one that isn’t flat or toasted. 

  • A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine. 

  • Female pubic hair; female genitals (vulva, vagina), like muff. 

  • A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert). 

  • A type of flattish bun, usually cut in two horizontally, toasted and spread with butter, etc, before being eaten; an English muffin. 

  • A less talented player; one who muffs, or drops the ball. 

  • A charming, attractive young man. 

verb
  • To make like a muffin. 

  • To eat muffins. 

  • To become like a muffin; to increase in size. 

  • To feed muffins. 

saccharine

noun
  • Sentimentalism. 

adj
  • Excessively sweet in action or disposition, especially if romantic or sentimental to the point of ridiculousness; sickly sweet, syrupy. 

  • Resembling granulated sugar; saccharoid. 

  • Of or relating to saccharin (“a white, crystalline powder, C₇H₅NO₃S, used as an artificial sweetener in food products”). 

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