lowbrow vs pedant

lowbrow

adj
  • Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture. 

noun
  • Someone or something of low education or culture. 

  • An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc. 

pedant

adj
  • Pedantic. 

noun
  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

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