bent as a nine-bob note vs spurious

bent as a nine-bob note

adj

  • Extremely dishonest or criminally-minded. 

  • Ostentatiously homosexual. 

spurious

adj

  • False, not authentic, not genuine. 

  • Extraneous; stray; not relevant or wanted. 

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