smouldering vs stuffy

smouldering

adj
  • Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame. 

noun
  • The act by which something smoulders; residual heat. 

stuffy

adj
  • Poorly ventilated; partially plugged. 

  • Stout; mettlesome; resolute. 

  • Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional. 

  • Stout; sturdy. 

  • Angry and obstinate; sulky. 

noun
  • Synonym of stuffed toy 

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