noddle vs twiddle one's thumbs

noddle

verb
  • To nod repeatedly. 

noun
  • The head; the part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth and main sense organs. 

  • The head as the seat of mental capacity or intellect. 

twiddle one's thumbs

verb
  • to circle one's thumbs around one another, usually with the fingers interlaced, usually done idly while waiting or bored 

  • To wait or dawdle; to accomplish nothing useful or lack a useful occupation. 

How often have the words noddle and twiddle one's thumbs occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )