medium-brow vs middlebrow

medium-brow

adj
  • Of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow. 

  • This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes. 

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 medium-brow and middlebrow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )