futz vs mess about

futz

verb
  • To be frivolous and waste time. 

  • To experiment by trial and error. 

noun
  • An objectionable woman. 

mess about

verb
  • To play with; to toy with; to waste the time of (a person). 

  • To misbehave 

  • To be in a casual non-committal relationship 

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