WordCmp.com

bum vs loon

loon vs bum

bum and loon both are nouns.

bum is an adjective but loon is not an adjective.

bum is a verb but loon is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
bum Yes Yes Yes No
loon Yes No No No
As nouns, loon is a hyponym of bum; that is, loon is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bum:
  • bum: person who does no work
  • loon: a worthless lazy fellow
Other hyponyms of bum include clock watcher, 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, shirker, slacker, slug, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.
bum (noun) loon (noun)
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on large somewhat primitive fish-eating diving bird of the Northern Hemisphere having webbed feet placed far back; related to the grebes
a vagrant a worthless lazy fellow
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible a person with confused ideas; incapable of serious thought
person who does no work
bum (adjective) loon (adjective)
of very poor quality; flimsy
bum (verb) loon (verb)
ask for and get free; be a parasite
be lazy or idle
Difference between bum and loon

Words related to "bum"

Words related to "loon"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.