idiot vs twerp

idiot

noun
  • A person who makes stupid decisions; a fool. 

  • A person of low general intelligence. 

adj
  • idiotic, stupid 

twerp

noun
  • A fool, a twit. 

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

  • 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 idiot and twerp occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )