hot air vs piffle

hot air

noun
  • Empty, confused, or exaggerated talk lacking meaning or substance; bluster. 

  • Air that has been heated, especially so as to function as the lifting agent of a hot-air balloon. 

piffle

noun
  • Nonsense, foolish talk. 

verb
  • To waste, to fritter away. 

  • To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner. 

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