bothersome vs thorny

bothersome

adj
  • Causing trouble, annoyance, inconvenience, irritation, or perplexity. 

thorny

adj
  • Aloof and irritable 

  • Having thorns or spines 

  • Troublesome or vexatious 

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