smashing vs taking

smashing

adj
  • Wonderful, very good or impressive. 

  • Serving to smash (something). 

noun
  • Gerund: The action of the verb to smash. 

taking

adj
  • Alluring; attractive. 

noun
  • A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. 

  • The act by which something is taken. 

  • Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). 

  • A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). 

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