bilge vs gibberish

bilge

noun
  • Stupid talk or writing; nonsense. 

  • The lowest inner part of a ship's hull, where water accumulates. 

  • The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water. 

  • The rounded portion of a ship's hull, forming a transition between the bottom and the sides. 

  • talk bilge 

  • The bulging part of a barrel or cask. 

verb
  • To break open the bilge(s) of. 

  • To spring a leak in the bilge. 

  • To bulge or swell. 

gibberish

noun
  • Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless. 

  • Needlessly obscure or overly technical language. 

  • A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word. 

adj
  • unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless 

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