killjoy vs old maid

killjoy

noun
  • A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun. 

old maid

noun
  • An old woman who has never married; a spinster. 

  • An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels. 

  • The Madagascar periwinkle. 

  • The unmatchable card in that game. 

  • A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid". 

  • The common zinnia. 

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