off-color vs subnormal

off-color

adj
  • Different than usual. 

  • Feeling mildly unwell. 

  • Dirty, vulgar or obscene, especially in a way that is unpleasant. 

  • Of the wrong color. 

subnormal

adj
  • Less than normal. 

  • denormal 

noun
  • A person whose abilities are less than normal. 

  • That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal. 

How often have the words off-color and subnormal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )