fool around vs fuck about

fool around

verb
  • To waste time. 

  • To engage in adultery; to play around. 

  • To engage in casual or flirtatious sexual acts. 

  • To engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around. 

fuck about

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

  • To fool around. 

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