off-the-wall vs quirky

off-the-wall

adj
  • Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. 

  • Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate. 

quirky

adj
  • Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute. 

How often have the words off-the-wall and quirky occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )