bilge vs hooey

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. 

hooey

noun
  • Silly talk or writing; nonsense, silliness, or fake assertion(s). 

  • A hog-tie performed in a rodeo show. 

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