cheerful vs free and easy

cheerful

adj
  • Bright and pleasant. 

  • Noticeably happy and optimistic. 

free and easy

adj
  • Casual, informal, relaxed, unrestrained. 

noun
  • A tavern offering informal entertainment from amateur and professional performers. 

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