buttering up vs smarm

buttering up

smarm

verb
  • To fawn, to be unctuous. 

  • To address in a fawning and unctuous manner. 

noun
  • Smarmy language or behavior. 

  • A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones. 

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