dude vs tar baby

dude

noun
  • A tourist. 

  • An inexperienced cowboy. 

  • A man, generally a younger man. 

  • A term of address for someone, typically a man, particularly when cautioning them or offering advice. 

intj
  • A term of address, usually for a man, conveying awe, excitement, surprise, annoyance, etc. 

verb
  • Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. 

  • To take a vacation in a dude ranch. 

  • To address someone as dude. 

tar baby

noun
  • A black person. 

  • A difficult, abstract problem that worsens as one attempts to handle it; a "sticky" situation, especially one where attempts to make it better only make it worse. 

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