tiptoe vs wallow

tiptoe

noun
  • The tip of the toe. 

verb
  • To walk quietly with only the tips of the toes touching the ground. 

adj
  • Standing elevated, on or as if on the tips of one's toes. 

  • Moving carefully, quietly, warily or stealthily, on or as if on the tips of one's toes. 

wallow

noun
  • An instance of wallowing. 

  • A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground. 

  • A kind of rolling walk. 

verb
  • To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud. 

  • To move lazily or heavily in any medium. 

  • To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner. 

  • To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish. 

  • To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically. 

adj
  • Tasteless, flat. 

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