nice vs rough-and-tumble

nice

adj
  • Showing or requiring great precision or sensitive discernment; subtle. 

  • Of a person: friendly, attractive. 

  • Pleasant, satisfactory. 

  • Respectable; virtuous. 

  • Shows that the given adjective is desirable, or acts as a mild intensifier; pleasantly, quite. 

  • Showing refinement or delicacy, proper, seemly 

intj
  • Used to signify approval. 

  • Used to signify a job well done. 

adv
  • Nicely. 

noun
  • niceness. 

verb
  • To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority. 

rough-and-tumble

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

noun
  • An environment of rough activity 

  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

How often have the words nice and rough-and-tumble occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )