frou-frou vs miserable

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. 

miserable

adj
  • Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible. 

  • In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor. 

  • Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent; hopeless. 

  • Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc. 

noun
  • A miserable person; a wretch. 

  • A state of misery or melancholy. 

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