curt vs sawed-off

curt

adj
  • Short or concise. 

  • Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude. 

sawed-off

adj
  • Short (as though something that should be there isn't). 

  • Shortened by sawing. 

noun
  • A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun. 

How often have the words curt and sawed-off occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )