froth vs miscue

froth

noun
  • unimportant or insubstantial talk, events, or actions; drivel 

  • foam 

  • Thousands of African children die each day: why do the newspapers continue to discuss unnecessary showbiz froth? 

  • Highly speculative investment. 

  • The idle rich; 

verb
  • To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. 

  • To cover with froth. 

  • (of a liquid) To bubble. 

  • To create froth in (a liquid). 

  • (literally) To spew saliva as froth; (figuratively) to rage, vent one's anger. 

miscue

noun
  • The act of missing one's cue or of responding to a cue intended for another actor. 

  • In a cue sport, an error in hitting the ball with the cue. 

  • A miss of the object one intended to hit. 

verb
  • to mishit, strike incorrectly. 

  • To give an incorrect cue. 

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