dilly vs noddy

dilly

noun
  • Someone or something that is remarkable or unusual. 

  • A dilly bag. 

adj
  • Silly; characteristic of a dill. 

  • Redolent of dill (the herb). 

noddy

noun
  • A stupid or silly person. 

  • Any of several stout-bodied, gregarious terns of the genera Anous and Procelsterna, found in tropical seas. 

  • An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached. 

  • A cutaway scene of a television interviewer nodding, used to cover an editing gap in an interview. 

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