clown vs hambone

clown

verb
  • To act in a silly or playful fashion. 

  • To ridicule. 

noun
  • A person who acts in a silly fashion. 

  • A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and usually characterized by bright, oversized clothing, a red nose, face paint, and a brightly colored wig. 

  • A clownfish. 

  • A stupid or badly-behaved person. 

hambone

verb
  • To dance the hambone. 

noun
  • Four consecutive strikes. 

  • A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands 

  • The bone at the center of a ham 

  • A ham; an eager or inferior performer 

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