play with vs putter

play with

verb
  • To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to improve its performance. 

  • To trick. 

  • To sexually stimulate a person or a person's erogenous zone. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: play with. 

putter

verb
  • To be active, but not excessively busy, at a task or a series of tasks. 

  • To produce intermittent bursts of sound in the course of operating. 

noun
  • A person who is taking a putt or putting. 

  • A shot-putter. 

  • One who puts or places. 

  • A golf club specifically intended for a putt. 

  • One who pushes the small wagons in a coal mine. 

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