ooze vs trickle

ooze

noun
  • Soft mud, slime, or shells especially in the bed of a river or estuary. 

  • A piece of soft, wet, pliable ground. 

  • Tanning liquor, an aqueous extract of vegetable matter (tanbark, sumac, etc.) in a tanning vat used to tan leather. 

  • A pelagic marine sediment containing a significant amount of the microscopic remains of either calcareous or siliceous planktonic debris organisms. 

  • An oozing, gentle flowing, or seepage, as of water through sand or earth. 

verb
  • To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. 

  • To be secreted or slowly leak. 

trickle

noun
  • A very thin river. 

  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling. 

verb
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously. 

  • To move or roll slowly. 

  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously. 

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