laggard vs bum

laggard and bum both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
laggard	Yes	Yes	No	No
bum	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

As nouns, bum is a hypernym of laggard; that is, bum is a word with a broader meaning than laggard:

laggard: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
bum: person who does no work

Other hypernyms of laggard include do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer.

laggard (noun)	bum (noun)
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind	the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
	a vagrant
	a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
	person who does no work

laggard (adjective)	bum (adjective)
wasting time	of very poor quality; flimsy

laggard (verb)	bum (verb)
	ask for and get free; be a parasite
	be lazy or idle