frou-frou vs gruff

frou-frou

adj
  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

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

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

gruff

adj
  • having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature. 

  • Of goods: bulky. 

  • hoarse-voiced. 

verb
  • To speak gruffly. 

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