goofball vs palooka

goofball

noun
  • A foolish or silly person or animal. 

  • A pill or tablet containing a pharmaceutical which has hypnotic or intoxicating effects, especially a barbiturate. 

adj
  • Silly. 

palooka

noun
  • A stupid, oafish or clumsy person. 

  • Someone incompetent or untalented. 

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