gentleman vs ruffian

gentleman

noun
  • An effeminate or oversophisticated man. 

  • Any well-bred, well-mannered, or charming man. 

  • Any man. 

  • An amateur or dabbler in any field, particularly those of independent means. 

  • An amateur player, particularly one whose wealth permits him to forego payment. 

  • A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight. 

ruffian

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

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

adj
  • Brutal; cruel; savagely boisterous; murderous. 

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