garbage vs scrapheap

garbage

noun
  • A place or receptacle for waste material. 

  • An easy shot. 

  • Food waste material of any kind. 

  • Something or someone worthless. 

  • Useless or disposable material; waste material of any kind. 

  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

adj
  • bad, crap, shitty 

scrapheap

noun
  • A pile in which junk is discarded. 

  • A junkyard. 

  • A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas. 

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