bawdy vs frou-frou

bawdy

adj
  • Obscene; filthy; unchaste. 

  • Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude. 

frou-frou

adj
  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

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