dodge vs whank

dodge

noun
  • An act of dodging. 

  • A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.) 

  • A line of work. 

verb
  • To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place. 

  • To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. 

  • To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn). 

  • To avoid; to sidestep. 

adj
  • Dodgy. 

whank

noun
  • A strike with the fist; a blow; a knock. 

  • A large portion, slice or lump. 

verb
  • To beat; to thrash; to whip; to lash. 

  • To cut, especially to cut off a large portion. 

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