hot tamale vs quip

hot tamale

noun
  • A comical person or thing. 

  • A physically attractive person. 

intj
  • An exclamation of surprise. 

quip

noun
  • A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort or comeback; a gibe. 

verb
  • To make a quip. 

  • To taunt; to treat with quips. 

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