acerbation vs bugbear

acerbation

noun
  • Bitterness of feeling. 

  • Exacerbation, aggravation, deterioration. 

bugbear

noun
  • A source of dread; resentment; or irritation. 

  • An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity. 

verb
  • To alarm with idle phantoms. 

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