smarting vs tickling

smarting

noun

  • A sensation that smarts or stings. 

adj

  • Experiencing emotional pain or embarrassment. 

  • Painful, sore. 

tickling

noun

  • A sensation that tickles. 

  • The act by which someone is tickled. 

adj

  • That tickles 

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