polish vs spackle

polish

noun
  • A substance used to polish. 

  • Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation. 

  • Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess. 

verb
  • To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite. 

  • To apply shoe polish to shoes. 

  • To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface. 

  • To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding. 

  • To refine; remove imperfections from. 

spackle

noun
  • A paste-like substance that fills a gap. 

  • Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster. 

  • A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster. 

verb
  • To fill gaps with something, as if spackling; to speckle 

  • To fill or repair with a plastic paste. 

  • To fill cracks or holes with a spackle. 

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