overboard vs profligate

overboard

verb
  • To throw over the edge of a boat into the water. 

adv
  • Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat. 

  • Excessively; too much. 

adj
  • Outside of a boat; in the water. 

profligate

adj
  • Inclined to waste resources or behave extravagantly. 

  • Immoral; abandoned to vice. 

noun
  • An overly wasteful or extravagant individual. 

  • An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person. 

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