dilly vs neoteric

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

neoteric

noun
  • Someone with new or modern ideas. 

  • any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus and Quintus Cornificius. 

  • A modern author (especially as opposed to a classical writer). 

adj
  • Modern, new-fangled. 

  • New; recent. 

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