nothingburger vs runt

nothingburger

noun
  • A person who is a nonentity. 

  • Something of less importance than its treatment suggests. 

  • A person or object that is bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact. 

adj
  • bland or unremarkable in appearance 

  • disreputable, as of a person 

runt

noun
  • An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody. 

  • The smallest animal of a litter. 

  • The smallest child in the family. 

  • A bow. 

  • A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon. 

  • An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes. 

  • Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person. 

  • A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph. 

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