lecture vs rough-and-tumble

lecture

noun
  • A berating or scolding. 

  • a class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1) 

  • A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group. 

verb
  • To preach, to berate, to scold. 

  • To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic. 

rough-and-tumble

noun
  • Rough activity; fighting or brawling; a fight. 

  • An environment of rough activity 

  • A person who characteristically engages in such activity 

verb
  • Engage in rough-and-tumble activity 

adj
  • active, vigorous and rough, with the possibility of harm 

  • highly competitive 

How often have the words lecture and rough-and-tumble occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )