back-fence talk vs repute

back-fence talk

repute

noun
  • Reputation, especially a good reputation. 

verb
  • To attribute or credit something to something; to impute. 

  • To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something 

How often have the words back-fence talk and repute occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )