shimmer vs twinkle

shimmer

noun
  • A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining. 

  • A measure of the irregularities in the loudness of a particular pitch over time. 

  • A thin electronic device that is fit inside a card reader, such as on automated teller machines (ATMs), or point-of-sale terminals (POS's), that acts as an intermediate interface between the chip on a chip-and-pin technology card and the chip reader of the machine, to allow one to clone the chip. 

verb
  • To shine tremulously or intermittently; to gleam faintly. 

twinkle

noun
  • A sparkle or glimmer of light. 

  • A brief moment; a twinkling. 

  • The female genitalia. 

  • A sparkle of delight in the eyes. 

  • A flitting movement. 

verb
  • To bat, blink or wink the eyes. 

  • To be bright with delight. 

  • To flit to and fro. 

  • To shine with a flickering light; to glimmer. 

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