nick vs snitch

nick

noun
  • A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch. 

  • The point where the wall of the court meets the floor. 

  • One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation. 

  • Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state. 

  • A police station or prison. 

verb
  • To make a cut at the side of the face. 

  • To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way. 

  • To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar. 

  • To steal. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher). 

snitch

noun
  • A ball used in the sport of Quidditch. 

  • A thief. 

  • An informer, one who betrays his group. 

  • A nose. 

  • A tiny morsel. 

verb
  • To inform on, especially in betrayal of others. 

  • To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason. 

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