do-nothing vs slug

slug vs do-nothing

do-nothing and slug both are nouns.

do-nothing is an adjective but slug is not an adjective.

do-nothing is not a verb while slug is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
do-nothing	Yes	Yes	No	No
slug	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, slug is a hyponym of do-nothing; that is, slug is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than do-nothing:

do-nothing: person who does no work
slug: an idle slothful person

Other hyponyms of do-nothing 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.

do-nothing (noun)	slug (noun)
person who does no work	(boxing) a blow with the fist
	any of various terrestrial gastropods having an elongated slimy body and no external shell
	a projectile that is fired from a gun
	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

do-nothing (adjective)	slug (adjective)
characterized by inability or unwillingness to work toward a goal or assume responsibility

do-nothing (verb)	slug (verb)
	strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
	be idle; exist in a changeless situation

Difference between do-nothing and slug

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