fritter away vs tarry

fritter away

verb

  • To squander or waste. 

  • To decrease in an incremental way without hindrance. 

tarry

adj

  • Resembling tar. 

  • Covered with tar. 

noun

  • A sojourn. 

How often have the words fritter away and tarry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )