churlish vs eristic

churlish

adj
  • Stingy or grudging. 

  • Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable. 

  • Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic. 

  • Rude, surly, ungracious. 

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 churlish and eristic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )