idiot vs palooka

idiot

noun
  • A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool. 

  • A person of low general intelligence. 

adj
  • idiotic, stupid 

palooka

noun
  • A stupid, oafish or clumsy person. 

  • Someone incompetent or untalented. 

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