drone vs layabout

drone and layabout both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
drone	Yes	No	Yes	No
layabout	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, layabout is a hypernym of drone; that is, layabout is a word with a broader meaning than drone:

Other hypernyms of drone include bum, do-nothing, idler, loafer.

drone (noun)	layabout (noun)
stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen	person who does no work
a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone
an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control
an unchanging intonation
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

drone (verb)	layabout (verb)
talk in a monotonous voice
make a monotonous low dull sound