bum vs clock watcher

clock watcher vs bum

bum and clock watcher both are nouns.

bum is an adjective but clock watcher is not an adjective.

bum is a verb but clock watcher is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bum	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
clock watcher	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, clock watcher is a hyponym of bum; that is, clock watcher is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bum:

bum: person who does no work
clock watcher: a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time

Other hyponyms of bum include couch potato, dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope, dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer, daydreamer, woolgatherer, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account, lazybones, lie-abed, slugabed, loon, shirker, slacker, slug, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.

bum (noun)	clock watcher (noun)
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on	a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time
a vagrant
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
person who does no work

bum (adjective)	clock watcher (adjective)
of very poor quality; flimsy

bum (verb)	clock watcher (verb)
ask for and get free; be a parasite
be lazy or idle

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