halfwit vs twerp

halfwit

noun
  • Someone lacking in intelligence. 

twerp

noun
  • A small or puny person; one regarded as insignificant, contemptible. 

  • A fool, a twit. 

  • A person who can be bullied playfully, or easily teased. Sometimes used as a pet-name (often for a younger sibling). 

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