matey vs piff

matey

adj
  • Sociable or friendly. 

noun
  • A dockyard worker. 

  • A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate. 

piff

adj
  • good or attractive. 

verb
  • To throw something vigorously. 

noun
  • Piffle; nonsense; rubbish. 

intj
  • An exclamation of annoyance or contempt; pish; pshaw. 

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