shearing vs tiddly

shearing

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

noun
  • Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions. 

  • The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. 

  • The act or operation of reaping. 

  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 

  • The material cut off in this way. 

  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 

  • The act or operation of dividing with shears. 

tiddly

adj
  • Somewhat drunk 

  • tiny; little 

noun
  • An alcoholic beverage. 

  • |passage=JC heard him remark, “I need a bit of the tiddly my dear. It’s been a hard day.” Tiddly, hm, must be an English drink?}} 

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