dawdle vs whoosh

dawdle

verb
  • Chiefly followed by away: to spend (time) without haste or purpose. 

  • To spend time idly and unfruitfully; to waste time. 

  • To move or walk lackadaisically. 

noun
  • An act of spending time idly and unfruitfully; a dawdling. 

  • Synonym of dawdler (“a person who dawdles or idles”) 

  • An act of moving or walking lackadaisically, a dawdling; a leisurely or slow walk or other journey. 

whoosh

verb
  • To pass by quickly and more or less close or away. 

  • To make a breathy sound like a whoosh or extrude with such a sound. 

  • To cause to pass quickly. 

  • To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point. 

  • To kill by gun, to shoot. 

noun
  • A homicide by shooting. 

  • A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. 

  • A gun. 

intj
  • Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close. 

  • Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head). 

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