dingbat vs kook

dingbat

noun
  • A silly, crazy or stupid person. 

  • Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else. 

  • A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown. 

  • An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars. 

  • A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc. 

  • A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution. 

kook

noun
  • An eccentric, strange or crazy person. 

  • A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are. 

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