scrubby vs tattered

scrubby

adj
  • Inferior in size or quality. 

  • Covered with or consisting of scrub. 

tattered

adj
  • Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged. 

  • Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged. 

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