starveling vs sticklike

starveling

adj

  • Meagre; scanty. 

  • Starving; suffering from starvation. 

noun

  • One who is thin from lack of food. 

sticklike

adj

  • Resembling a stick in form 

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