cornball vs sickly sweet

cornball

adj
  • Naive, corny. 

noun
  • A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar. 

  • Something or someone excessively corny. 

  • An unsophisticated person. 

sickly sweet

adj
  • Too sweet; sickeningly sweet. 

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