dude vs wight

dude

verb
  • Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. 

  • To take a vacation in a dude ranch. 

  • To address someone as dude. 

noun
  • An inexperienced cowboy. 

  • A tourist. 

  • A man, generally a younger man. 

  • A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice. 

intj
  • A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, annoyance, etc. 

wight

noun
  • A wraith-like creature. 

  • A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity. 

  • A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor. 

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