wait vs whirl

wait

noun
  • A delay. 

  • An ambush. 

  • Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. 

intj
  • Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment. 

verb
  • To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence. 

  • To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. 

  • To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. 

whirl

noun
  • A rapid series of events. 

  • (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial. 

  • Something that whirls. 

  • Dizziness or giddiness. 

  • An act of whirling. 

  • A confused tumult. 

verb
  • To make something or someone whirl. 

  • To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. 

  • To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch. 

  • To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. 

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