lallygag vs protract

lallygag

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

noun
  • Horseplay, fooling around. 

  • A layabout, one who lallygags. 

protract

verb
  • To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer. 

  • To draw out; to extend, especially in duration. 

  • To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot. 

  • To extend; to protrude. 

  • To use a protractor. 

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