screwball vs wacko

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. 

wacko

noun
  • An amusingly eccentric or irrational person. 

adj
  • Amusingly eccentric or irrational. 

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