frou-frou vs wretched

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. 

wretched

adj
  • Of an insignificant, mean, or poor nature; miserable, paltry, worthless. 

  • Of a person, etc.: behaving in a manner deserving contempt; base, despicable, wicked. 

  • Of weather: causing much discomfort; very unpleasant; miserable. 

  • Characterized by or feeling deep affliction or distress; very miserable. 

  • Of an inferior or unworthy nature or social status; contemptible, lowly. 

  • Used to express annoyance towards or dislike of someone or something: bloody, damned. 

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