pikey vs sham

pikey

verb
  • To steal. 

noun
  • A pike (fish). 

  • A working-class (often underclass) person with negative connotations of benefit fraud, theft and living on rundown estates. 

  • An itinerant person, especially one of Romani or Irish Traveller heritage. 

adj
  • Associated with members of the above-mentioned underclass. 

  • Associated with or filled with pike (fish). 

sham

verb
  • To obtrude by fraud or imposition. 

  • To deceive, cheat, lie. 

  • To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign. 

adj
  • mock 

  • Intended to deceive; false. 

  • counterfeit; unreal 

  • See also Thesaurus:fake 

noun
  • A decorative cover for a pillow. 

  • A false front, or removable ornamental covering. 

  • Trickery, hoaxing. 

  • A fake; an imitation that purports to be genuine. 

  • Champagne. 

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