dusting vs scourging

dusting

noun
  • A beating. 

  • The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore. 

  • A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dust-bathing. 

  • A light snowfall. 

  • A light covering of something. 

scourging

noun
  • A beating with a scourge; a flogging. 

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