unoriginal vs weed

unoriginal

noun
  • A person or work that does not exhibit originality. 

adj
  • Not being the first or earliest version of something, not original. 

  • Lacking originality. 

weed

noun
  • A puny person; one who has little physical strength. 

  • Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing. 

  • Tobacco. 

  • Underbrush; low shrubs. 

  • A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted. 

  • Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. 

  • Cannabis. 

  • Lymphangitis in a horse. 

  • A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from. 

verb
  • To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria. 

  • To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. 

  • To pilfer the best items from a collection. 

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