crackpot vs screwball

crackpot

noun
  • An eccentric, crazy or foolish person. 

  • Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict). 

adj
  • Eccentric or impractical. 

screwball

noun
  • One who behaves in a crazy manner. 

  • A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher. 

adj
  • Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird. 

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