towering vs whopping

towering

adj
  • Very tall or high, so as to dwarf anything around it. 

noun
  • The act or condition of being high above others. 

whopping

adj
  • Exceptionally great or large. 

adv
  • Exceedingly, extremely, very. 

noun
  • A beating. 

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