gimcrack vs pinchbeck

gimcrack

adj
  • Showy but of poor quality; worthless. 

verb
  • To embellish with gimcracks. 

  • To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge. 

noun
  • Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick. 

pinchbeck

adj
  • Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive. 

  • Made of pinchbeck. 

noun
  • An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry. 

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