on the wagon vs wastey

on the wagon

prep
  • Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken); teetotal. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, wagon. 

  • Maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit. 

wastey

adj
  • too fat, as opposed to meaty 

  • soft as a result of getting overripe 

  • getting drunk close to being wasted 

  • Protein brought out more of the muscling and red meat before the cattle got too wastey with too much fat. 

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