bother vs slay

bother

verb
  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

noun
  • Fuss, ado. 

  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

slay

verb
  • To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter. 

  • To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest). 

  • To kill; to murder. 

  • To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something. 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To eradicate or stamp out. 

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