hot tamale vs repartee

hot tamale

noun
  • A comical person or thing. 

  • A physically attractive person. 

intj
  • An exclamation of surprise. 

repartee

noun
  • A swift, witty reply, especially one that is amusing. 

  • A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts. 

  • Skill in replying swiftly and wittily. 

verb
  • To have a repartee (conversation marked by repartees) 

  • To reply with a repartee 

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