Welsh vs humbug

Welsh

noun
  • The people of Wales. 

  • The Welsh language. 

  • A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon. 

adj
  • Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales. (See Derived terms.) 

  • (Native) British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation. 

  • Of or pertaining to Wales. 

  • Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales. 

name
  • An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh. 

  • An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt. 

  • A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh. 

  • An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler. 

humbug

noun
  • Nonsense. 

  • A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern. 

  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • A fight. 

  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite. 

  • Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial. 

verb
  • To fight; to act tough. 

  • To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. 

intj
  • Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! 

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