bent as a nine-bob note vs hinky

bent as a nine-bob note

adj
  • Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded. 

  • Ostentatiously homosexual. 

hinky

adj
  • dishonest; sketchy; shady 

  • snobbish; haughty 

  • Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having something to hide, or seemingly crooked. 

  • Weird; nonstandard. 

  • Suspicious (of something). 

  • unreliable; wonky 

How often have the words bent as a nine-bob note and hinky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )