frou-frou vs terrible

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. 

terrible

adj
  • Unpleasant; disagreeable. 

  • Intense; extreme in degree or extent. 

  • Dreadful; causing terror, alarm and fear; awesome 

  • Formidable, powerful. 

  • Very bad; lousy. 

adv
  • In a terrible way; to a terrible extent; terribly; awfully. 

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