frou-frou vs precious

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. 

precious

adj
  • Contrived to be cute or charming. 

  • Regarded with love or tenderness. 

  • Treated with too much reverence. 

  • Thorough; utter. 

  • Blasted; damned. 

  • Of high value or worth. 

noun
  • Someone (or something) who is loved; a darling. 

adv
  • Very; an intensifier. 

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