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bum vs slug

slug vs bum

bum and slug both are nouns.

bum is an adjective but slug is not an adjective.

bum and slug both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
bum Yes Yes Yes No
slug Yes No Yes No
As nouns, slug is a hyponym of bum; that is, slug is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bum:
  • bum: person who does no work
  • slug: an idle slothful person
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, shirker, slacker, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, whittler.
As verbs, slug is a hypernym of bum; that is, slug is a word with a broader meaning than bum:
  • bum: be lazy or idle
  • slug: be idle; exist in a changeless situation
Other hypernyms of bum include idle, laze, stagnate.
bum (noun) slug (noun)
the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on (boxing) a blow with the fist
a vagrant any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible a projectile that is fired from a gun
person who does no work a strip of type metal used for spacing
an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped
an idle slothful person
a counterfeit coin
a unit of mass equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot/sec/sec when acted upon by a force of 1 pound; approximately 14.5939 kilograms
bum (adjective) slug (adjective)
of very poor quality; flimsy
bum (verb) slug (verb)
ask for and get free; be a parasite strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
be lazy or idle be idle; exist in a changeless situation
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