fuck about vs joke 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. 

joke around

verb
  • (procrastinate, fool around, behave immaturely): bowdlerization of fuck around 

  • To say something that is not meant to be taken seriously. 

  • To kid, prank, joke. 

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