brassy vs frou-frou

brassy

adj
  • Unfeeling; pitiless. 

  • Impudent; impudently bold. 

  • Harsh in tone. 

  • Resembling brass. 

noun
  • Kyphosus vaigiensis, a fish found in southeast Asia. 

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. 

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

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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