backwoods vs thicket

backwoods

noun
  • Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America. 

  • A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life. 

adj
  • Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters. 

  • Pertaining to the backwoods. 

thicket

noun
  • A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. 

  • A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. 

  • The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. 

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