hand-me-down vs secondhanded

hand-me-down

adj
  • Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user. 

verb
  • To pass along to someone else. 

noun
  • A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one. 

  • An item that is passed along for someone else to use. 

secondhanded

adj
  • Previously owned or used. 

  • Indirect. 

  • Ersatz. 

  • Dealing in used goods. 

adv
  • Indirectly 

  • In second place, repeating another. 

  • In a used condition. 

How often have the words hand-me-down and secondhanded occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )