chit-chat vs town crier

chit-chat

noun
  • Gossip. 

  • Light conversation; casual talk, usually about trivial matters. 

verb
  • To engage in small talk, to discuss unimportant matters. 

town crier

noun
  • A gossip 

  • A person who is employed by a town council to make public announcements in the streets 

How often have the words chit-chat and town crier occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )