fool vs fuck about

fool

verb
  • To trick; to deceive. 

  • To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly. 

adj
  • Foolish. 

noun
  • A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream. 

  • A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages). 

  • A person with poor judgment or little intelligence. 

  • A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester. 

  • Someone who derives pleasure from something specified. 

  • Buddy, dude, man. 

fuck about

verb
  • To fool around. 

  • To waste time with unimportant activities, often used as an admonition to urge the other party to stop wasting time. 

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