confabulate vs whistle Dixie

confabulate

verb
  • To speak casually with; to chat. 

  • To confer. 

  • To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory. 

whistle Dixie

verb
  • To engage in idle conversational fantasies. 

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