nipper vs tyke

nipper

noun
  • A child. 

  • Any of various devices (as pincers) for nipping. 

  • A European crab (Polybius henslowii). 

  • A young bluefish. 

  • One who, or that which, nips. 

  • A boy working as a navvies' assistant. 

  • The claws of a crab or lobster. 

  • A fish, the cunner. 

  • One of a pair of automatically locking handcuffs. 

  • A child aged from 5 to 13 in the Australian surf life-saving clubs. 

  • One of four foreteeth in a horse. 

  • A mosquito. 

verb
  • To seize (two ropes) together. 

tyke

noun
  • A small child, especially a cheeky or mischievous one 

  • A Roman Catholic 

  • A mongrel dog. 

  • An initiation level of sports competition for young children 

  • A person from Yorkshire; a Yorkshireman or Yorkshirewoman 

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