bravado vs swaggering

bravado

noun

  • A false show of courage. 

  • A swaggering show of defiance or courage. 

swaggering

noun

  • Boastful, blustering behaviour. 

adj

  • Boastful, proud, self-confident. 

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