rinky-dink vs subnormal

rinky-dink

noun
  • An amateur or someone who is underqualified. 

  • A tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk. 

  • A thingy; a miscellaneous thing or object. 

  • Deceptive or underhanded rigmarole; trickery. 

  • A small-time crook or conman; someone who operates unethically. 

  • Something that is not up to acceptable standards. 

  • A bad deal; the result of a false promise. 

adj
  • That rinky-dink shelf is likely to collapse if you fill it with books. 

  • Of poor quality; shoddy, small-time, or amateurish. 

  • Crooked; underhanded. 

  • Tinkling and tinny. 

subnormal

noun
  • A person whose abilities are less than normal. 

  • That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. 

adj
  • denormal 

  • Less than normal. 

How often have the words rinky-dink and subnormal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )