badass vs eristic

badass

adj
  • Belligerent and troublesome. 

  • Having an extreme appearance, attitude, or behavior that is considered admirable. 

noun
  • A person considered impressive due to courage, skill, daring, audacity, and/or toughness. 

  • A belligerent or mean person; a person with an unpleasantly extreme appearance, attitudes, or behavior. 

eristic

adj
  • Provoking strife, controversy or discord. 

noun
  • One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious. 

  • A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest. 

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