bare-boned vs penurious

bare-boned

adj
  • slim; not fleshy; very lean; emaciated 

  • Very basic; having only the essentials and nothing else. 

penurious

adj
  • Not bountiful; thin; scant. 

  • Miserly; excessively cheap. 

  • Impoverished; wanting for money. 

How often have the words bare-boned and penurious occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )