jive vs sham

jive

verb
  • To deceive; to be deceptive. 

  • To jibe, in the sense of to accord, to agree 

  • To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc. 

noun
  • Swing, a style of jazz music. 

  • A slang associated with jazz musicians; hepcat patois or hipster jargon. 

  • African-American Vernacular English. 

  • Synonym of bullshit: patent nonsense, transparently deceptive talk. 

  • A dance style popular in the 1940–50s. 

sham

verb
  • To deceive, cheat, lie. 

  • To obtrude by fraud or imposition. 

  • To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign. 

noun
  • A decorative cover for a pillow. 

  • A false front, or removable ornamental covering. 

  • Trickery, hoaxing. 

  • A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. 

  • Champagne. 

adj
  • mock 

  • Intended to deceive; false. 

  • counterfeit; unreal 

  • See also Thesaurus:fake 

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