faff around vs mess around

faff around

verb
  • To waste time; spend time idly. 

mess around

verb
  • To fiddle idly. 

  • To joke, kid, or play. 

  • To have a sexual relationship, especially one which is non-commital. 

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