twister vs whirlwind

twister

noun
  • A tornado. 

  • A crook, a villain. 

  • A girder 

  • One who twists. 

  • The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. 

  • The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant. 

  • A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards. 

  • A species of libellulid dragonfly, Tholymis tillarga, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. 

  • One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 

whirlwind

noun
  • A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. 

  • A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward. 

adj
  • Rapid and minimal: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance. 

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