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bum vs shirker

shirker vs bum

bum and shirker both are nouns.

bum is an adjective but shirker is not an adjective.

bum is a verb but shirker is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
bum Yes Yes Yes No
shirker Yes No No No
As nouns, shirker is a hyponym of bum; that is, shirker is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bum:
  • bum: person who does no work
  • shirker: a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
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, loon, slacker, slug, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.
bum (noun) shirker (noun)
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
a vagrant
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
person who does no work
bum (adjective) shirker (adjective)
of very poor quality; flimsy
bum (verb) shirker (verb)
ask for and get free; be a parasite
be lazy or idle
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