lallygag vs muck about

lallygag

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

noun
  • Horseplay, fooling around. 

  • A layabout, one who lallygags. 

muck about

verb
  • To do random unplanned work or spend time idly 

  • To attempt to do something with a piece of equipment without understanding how it works. 

  • To be playful; full of fun and high spirits; to not treat the situation seriously. 

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