frou-frou vs fulsome

frou-frou

adj
  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

fulsome

adj
  • Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity). 

  • Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive. 

  • Marked by fullness; abundant, copious. 

  • Fully developed; mature. 

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