weird vs wry

weird

adj
  • Deviating from the normal; bizarre. 

  • Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. 

noun
  • Weirdness. 

  • That which comes to pass; a fact. 

  • A prediction. 

adv
  • In a strange manner. 

verb
  • To warn solemnly; adjure. 

  • To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery. 

wry

adj
  • Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place. 

  • Turned away, contorted (of the face or body). 

  • Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic. 

  • Twisted, bent, crooked. 

verb
  • To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.). 

noun
  • Distortion. 

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