crackpot vs quicksilver

crackpot

adj
  • Eccentric or impractical. 

noun
  • An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. 

  • Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). 

quicksilver

adj
  • Unpredictable, erratic or fickle; mercurial. 

noun
  • The metal mercury. 

  • An amalgam of mercury and tin applied to the backs of mirrors, quicksilvering. 

verb
  • To overlay with quicksilver. 

  • To treat with quicksilver. 

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