ballyhoo vs surmise

ballyhoo

verb
  • To sensationalise or make grand claims. 

noun
  • An unseaworthy or slovenly ship. 

  • Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity. 

  • Certain species in family Hemiramphidae, inshore, surface-dwelling needlefish forming sizeable schools. 

  • Hemiramphus brasiliensis 

  • Noisy shouting or uproar. 

surmise

verb
  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. 

noun
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. 

  • Reflection; thought; posit. 

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