double talk vs footle

double talk

noun
  • Lies, especially in a formal political statement. 

  • Speech which combines English (or some other language) and native-sounding gibberish for humorous effect. 

  • Doublespeak. 

  • A situation when two people talk at the same time, causing overlapping audio signals. 

  • A simple phonetic code with a regular infix that makes meaningful speech sound unintelligible. 

footle

noun
  • nonsense; foolishness. 

verb
  • To waste time; to trifle. 

  • To talk nonsense. 

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