flotsam vs garbage

flotsam

noun
  • Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck. 

garbage

noun
  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. 

  • An easy shot. 

  • Food waste material of any kind. 

  • A place or receptacle for waste material. 

  • Something or someone worthless. 

  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

adj
  • bad, crap, shitty 

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