bother vs scutter

bother

noun
  • Fuss, ado. 

  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

verb
  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

scutter

noun
  • A hasty run. 

  • Thin excrement. 

verb
  • To run with a light pattering noise; to skitter. 

  • To void thin excrement. 

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