frou-frou vs scurvy

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. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

scurvy

adj
  • Contemptible, despicable, low, disgustingly mean. 

  • Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. 

noun
  • A disease caused by insufficient intake of vitamin C, leading to the formation of livid spots on the skin, spongy gums, loosening of the teeth and bleeding into the skin and from almost all mucous membranes. 

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