bow-wow vs whelpie

bow-wow

noun

  • A dog. 

  • The sound of a dog barking. 

intj

  • Representing the sound of a dog barking. 

whelpie

noun

  • A small whelp, especially a little cub or puppy; a cur. 

How often have the words bow-wow and whelpie occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )