other man vs significant other

other man

noun
  • A man who is romantically involved with someone (usually a woman) already in a committed relationship with another man, especially a man having an affair with a married woman. 

significant other

noun
  • A person with whom one has an important bond of some kind. 

  • One's exclusive romantic partner. 

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