frou-frou vs trig

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. 

trig

adj
  • Active; clever. 

  • Neat; tidy; trim; spruce; smart. 

  • Safe; secure. 

  • Tight; firm; steady; sound; in good condition or health. 

  • True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful. 

noun
  • A trigonometric point; a trig point. 

  • A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid. 

  • The mark for players at skittles, etc. 

  • A dandy; coxcomb. 

  • Trigonometry. 

  • Triglyceride. 

verb
  • To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid. 

  • To fill; to stuff; to cram. 

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