high-strung vs nervy

high-strung

adj
  • Nervous; anxious; excited or excitable. 

nervy

adj
  • Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated. 

  • jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics. 

  • Having nerve; bold; brazen. 

How often have the words high-strung and nervy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )