maverick vs pedant

maverick

adj
  • Showing independence in thoughts or actions. 

  • Unbranded. 

verb
  • To seize without a legal claim. 

  • To take an unbranded range animal. 

noun
  • A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as an enlisted person. 

  • Anything dishonestly obtained. 

  • A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em. 

  • An unbranded range animal. 

  • One who creates or uses controversial or unconventional ideas or practices. 

  • One who is unconventional or does not abide by rules. 

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 maverick and pedant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )