fuck about vs fuck around

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. 

fuck around

verb
  • To fool around. 

  • To horseplay, joke around, behave immaturely or irresponsibly 

  • To have sex with many partners. 

  • To fritter aimlessly or distractedly, to procrastinate, to waste time. 

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