prickly vs stoke

prickly

noun
  • Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object. 

adj
  • Covered with sharp points. 

  • Easily irritated. 

  • Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny. 

adv
  • In a prickly manner. 

stoke

noun
  • An act of poking, piercing, thrusting 

verb
  • To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman. 

  • To poke, pierce, thrust. 

  • To encourage a behavior or emotion. 

  • To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. 

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