gimcrack vs privative

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. 

privative

adj
  • consisting in the absence of something; negative 

  • causing privation; depriving 

  • indicating the absence of something 

noun
  • something that causes privation or indicates an absence 

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