scrubby vs shabby

scrubby

adj
  • Inferior in size or quality. 

  • Covered with or consisting of scrub. 

shabby

adj
  • Poor; showing little effort or talent. 

  • Wearing ragged, very worn, or dirty clothing. 

  • Mean; despicable. 

  • Torn or worn; unkempt. 

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