carrying-on vs twining

carrying-on

noun

  • Irritating or self-indulgent behavior 

  • Improper, immoral behavior 

twining

noun

  • complaining or grumbling 

  • A layout or motion that twines. 

adj

  • That twines. 

How often have the words carrying-on and twining occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )