frou-frou vs smart

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. 

smart

adj
  • Good-looking; well dressed; fine; fashionable. 

  • Equipped with intelligent behaviour (digital/computer technology). 

  • Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful. 

  • Sharp; keen; poignant. 

  • Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books. 

  • Sudden and intense. 

  • Exhibiting social ability or cleverness. 

  • Causing sharp pain; stinging. 

verb
  • To cause a smart or sting in. 

  • To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. 

  • To hurt or sting. 

noun
  • Smart-money. 

  • Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction. 

  • A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting. 

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