humbug vs spoof

humbug

noun
  • Nonsense. 

  • A type of hard sweet (candy), usually peppermint flavoured with a striped pattern. 

  • A hoax, jest, or prank. 

  • A fight. 

  • A fraud or sham; (uncountable) hypocrisy. 

  • A false arrest on trumped-up charges. 

  • The piglet of the wild boar. 

  • A cheat, fraudster, or hypocrite. 

  • Anything complicated, offensive, troublesome, unpleasant or worrying; a misunderstanding, especially if trivial. 

intj
  • Balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish! 

verb
  • To fight; to act tough. 

  • To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive. 

spoof

noun
  • Nonsense. 

  • A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. 

  • A light parody. 

  • An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. 

  • Semen. 

adj
  • Fake, hoax. 

verb
  • To falsify. 

  • To gently satirize. 

  • To ejaculate, to come. 

  • To deceive. 

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