bully vs hoodlum

bully

noun
  • A hired thug. 

  • A noisy, blustering, tyrannical person, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome. 

  • The small scrum in the Eton College field game. 

  • A standoff between two players from the opposing teams, who repeatedly hit each other's hockey sticks and then attempt to acquire the ball, as a method of resuming the game in certain circumstances. Also called bully-off. 

  • A miner's hammer. 

  • A sex worker’s minder. 

  • A companion; mate (male or female). 

  • A person who is intentionally physically or emotionally cruel to others, especially to those whom they perceive as being vulnerable or of less power or privilege. 

  • Bully beef. 

  • Any of various small freshwater or brackishwater fish of the family Eleotridae; sleeper gobies. , Gobiomorphus cotidianus]] 

intj
  • Well done! 

adj
  • Very good. 

verb
  • To intimidate (someone) as a bully. 

  • To act aggressively towards. 

hoodlum

noun
  • A gangster; a hired thug. 

  • A rough or violent youth. 

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