skiver vs wag

skiver

noun
  • A skewer. 

  • 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 slacker. 

verb
  • To skewer, impale. 

wag

noun
  • A witty person. 

  • An oscillating movement. 

verb
  • To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. 

  • To play truant from school. 

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