nettlesome vs pestiferous

nettlesome

adj
  • Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome. 

  • Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky. 

pestiferous

adj
  • annoying, vexatious 

  • containing organisms that cause contagious diseases 

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