foisty vs rinky-dink

foisty

adj
  • mouldy, musty, fusty 

rinky-dink

adj
  • Tinkling and tinny. 

  • That rinky-dink shelf is likely to collapse if you fill it with books. 

  • Of poor quality; shoddy, small-time, or amateurish. 

  • Crooked; underhanded. 

noun
  • A tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk. 

  • An amateur or someone who is underqualified. 

  • A thingy; a miscellaneous thing or object. 

  • Deceptive or underhanded rigmarole; trickery. 

  • A small-time crook or conman; someone who operates unethically. 

  • Something that is not up to acceptable standards. 

  • A bad deal; the result of a false promise. 

How often have the words foisty and rinky-dink occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )