gangster vs ruffian

gangster

noun
  • A member of a criminal or street gang. 

  • A member of a professional criminal organization; a racketeer. 

verb
  • To act like a gangster; to commit street crime or run a racket. 

ruffian

noun
  • A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person. 

adj
  • Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous. 

verb
  • To play the ruffian; to rage; to raise tumult. 

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