dingbat vs piff

dingbat

noun
  • A silly, crazy or stupid person. 

  • Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else. 

  • A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown. 

  • An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars. 

  • A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc. 

  • A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution. 

piff

noun
  • Piffle; nonsense; rubbish. 

adj
  • good or attractive. 

intj
  • An exclamation of annoyance or contempt; pish; pshaw. 

verb
  • To throw something vigorously. 

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