checkered vs skewbald

checkered

adj
  • Divided into squares, or into light and dark patches. 

  • Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures. 

skewbald

adj
  • Marked with patches of white and non-black colours. 

noun
  • A skewbald horse. 

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