frou-frou vs seedy

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. 

seedy

adj
  • Untidy; unkempt. 

  • Full of seeds. 

  • Having the flavour of seeds. 

  • Infirm; unwell; gone to seed. 

  • Disreputable, run-down. 

  • Suffering the effects of a hangover. 

  • Having a peculiar flavour supposed to be derived from the weeds growing among the vines; said of certain kinds of French brandy. 

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