hand-me-down vs shabby

hand-me-down

noun
  • A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one. 

  • An item that is passed along for someone else to use. 

adj
  • Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user. 

verb
  • To pass along to someone else. 

shabby

adj
  • Wearing ragged, very worn, or dirty clothing. 

  • Mean; despicable. 

  • Torn or worn; unkempt. 

  • Poor; showing little effort or talent. 

How often have the words hand-me-down and shabby occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )