idler vs slug

idler and slug both are nouns.

idler is not a verb while slug is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
idler	Yes	No	No	No
slug	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, slug is a hyponym of idler; that is, slug is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than idler:

idler: person who does no work
slug: an idle slothful person

Other hyponyms of idler 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.

idler (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

idler (verb)	slug (verb)
	strike heavily, especially with the fist or a bat
	be idle; exist in a changeless situation

Difference between idler and slug

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