highbrow vs middlebrow

highbrow

adj
  • Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated. 

noun
  • A cultured or learned person or thing. 

middlebrow

adj
  • Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between. 

noun
  • A person or thing that is neither highbrow nor lowbrow, but in between. 

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