militant vs spoiling for a fight

militant

adj
  • Fighting or disposed to fight; belligerent, warlike. 

  • Aggressively supporting of a political or social cause; adamant, combative. 

noun
  • Specifically, someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant, or who engages in aggressive left-wing politics. 

  • An entrenched or aggressive adherent to a particular cause, now especially a member of a particular ideological faction. 

spoiling for a fight

phrase
  • In a mood to fight; looking to argue or quarrel with someone. 

How often have the words militant and spoiling for a fight occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )