fool about vs joke around

fool about

verb
  • to fool around 

joke around

verb
  • (procrastinate, fool around, behave immaturely): bowdlerization of fuck around 

  • To say something that is not meant to be taken seriously. 

  • To kid, prank, joke. 

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