dumb vs nitty

dumb

adj
  • Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value. 

  • Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour. 

  • Extremely stupid. 

verb
  • To make stupid. 

  • To represent as stupid. 

  • To reduce the intellectual demands of. 

nitty

adj
  • Foolish, inane. 

  • Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner. 

  • detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky. 

noun
  • A dope fiend, a druggie. 

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