competent vs tickety-boo

competent

adj
  • Adequate for the purpose. 

  • Resistant to deformation or flow. 

  • Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications. 

  • Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question. 

  • Permeable to foreign DNA. 

tickety-boo

adj
  • Correct, satisfactory. 

How often have the words competent and tickety-boo occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )