phony vs spoof

phony

adj
  • Fraudulent; fake; having a misleading appearance. 

noun
  • A person who professes beliefs or opinions that they do not hold. 

  • Anything fraudulent or fake. 

  • A person who assumes an identity or quality other than their own. 

verb
  • To fake. 

spoof

adj
  • Fake, hoax. 

noun
  • A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden in a fist and attempt to guess the total number of coins held. 

  • A light parody. 

  • Nonsense. 

  • An act of deception; a hoax; a joking prank. 

  • Semen. 

verb
  • To falsify. 

  • To gently satirize. 

  • To ejaculate, to come. 

  • To deceive. 

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