off-the-wall vs weird

off-the-wall

adj
  • Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd. 

  • Of a person's behaviour: greatly inappropriate. 

weird

adj
  • Having an unusually strange character or behaviour. 

  • Deviating from the normal; bizarre. 

noun
  • Weirdness. 

  • That which comes to pass; a fact. 

  • A prediction. 

verb
  • To warn solemnly; adjure. 

  • To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery. 

adv
  • In a strange manner. 

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