lallygag vs mess around

lallygag

verb
  • To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort. 

noun
  • Horseplay, fooling around. 

  • A layabout, one who lallygags. 

mess around

verb
  • To fiddle idly. 

  • To joke, kid, or play. 

  • To have a sexual relationship, especially one which is non-commital. 

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