buffoon vs japer

buffoon

noun
  • One who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool. 

  • An unintentionally ridiculous person. 

verb
  • To behave like a buffoon 

japer

noun
  • One who japes; a joker. 

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