shirker vs skiver

shirker

noun
  • One who is lazy. 

  • One who shirks a duty or responsibility. 

skiver

noun
  • A slacker. 

  • A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school. 

  • The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins. 

  • One who uses a skive (or skives). 

  • An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc. 

  • A skewer. 

verb
  • To skewer, impale. 

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