boon vs downer

boon

adj
  • gay; merry; jovial; convivial. 

noun
  • The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching. 

  • A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for. 

  • An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord. 

downer

noun
  • A livestock animal that has collapsed. 

  • A negative drug trip. 

  • A form of industrial action in which workers down tools and refuse to work. 

  • Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy. 

  • A drug that has depressant qualities. 

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