bitter vs squint-eyed

bitter

adj
  • Harsh, piercing or stinging. 

  • Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). 

  • Hateful or hostile. 

  • Cynical and resentful. 

noun
  • A type of beer heavily flavored with hops. 

  • A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic. 

  • A turn of a cable about the bitts. 

  • A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits). 

verb
  • To make bitter. 

squint-eyed

adj
  • Looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant. 

  • Having eyes that squint; cross-eyed. 

How often have the words bitter and squint-eyed occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )