brooding vs owlish

brooding

adj
  • Deeply or seriously thoughtful. 

  • Broody; incubating eggs by sitting on them. 

noun
  • A spell of brooding; the time when someone broods. 

owlish

adj
  • Wise and solemn. 

  • Stupid; dull-looking. 

  • Resembling or characteristic of an owl. 

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