shrill vs throaty

shrill

adj
  • High-pitched and piercing. 

  • Sharp or keen to the senses. 

  • Having a shrill voice. 

  • Fierce, loud, strident. 

verb
  • To make a shrill noise. 

noun
  • A shrill sound. 

throaty

adj
  • Having a dewlap or excess skin hanging under the neck. 

  • Produced in the throat; having a rough or coarse quality like a sound produced in the throat. 

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