jive vs stilted

jive

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. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • To deceive; to be deceptive. 

stilted

adj
  • Elevated or raised in a contrived or unnatural way; stiff and artificially formal or pompous; also, depending on redundant, unnecessary elements. 

  • Making use of or possessing a stilt or stilts, or things resembling stilts; raised on stilts. 

  • Of a building or architectural feature such as an arch or vault: supported by stilts (“supporting pillars or posts”); also (generally) having the main part raised above the usual level by some structure. 

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