avant-garde vs dilly

avant-garde

noun
  • Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts. 

adj
  • Innovative, pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so. 

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

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