blockhead vs turkey

blockhead

noun
  • A stupid person. 

  • A sideshow performer who hammers nails or similar items through his or her nostril into the nasal cavity; human blockhead. 

verb
  • To perform as a human blockhead. 

  • To behave in a stupid manner. 

turkey

noun
  • A foolish or inept person. 

  • The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. 

  • A bird in the genus Meleagris with a fan-shaped tail and wattled neck, especially the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo, now domesticated). 

  • With a distinguishing word: a bird resembling the Meleagris gallopavo (for example, the brush turkey or bush turkey (Alectura lathami), and the water turkey (Anhinga anhinga)). 

  • A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer. 

  • A failure. 

  • An act of throwing three strikes in a row. 

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