plodder vs hack

hack vs plodder

plodder and hack both are nouns.

plodder is not a verb while hack is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
plodder	Yes	No	No	No
hack	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, hack is a hypernym of plodder; that is, hack is a word with a broader meaning than plodder:

plodder: someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours
hack: one who works hard at boring tasks

Other hypernyms of plodder include drudge, hacker.

plodder (noun)	hack (noun)
someone who moves slowly	a horse kept for hire
someone who works slowly and monotonously for long hours	an old or over-worked horse
someone who walks in a laborious heavy-footed manner	a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
	a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
	a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
	one who works hard at boring tasks
	a mediocre and disdained writer
	a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

plodder (verb)	hack (verb)
	cough spasmodically
	significantly cut up a manuscript
	fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
	kick on the shins
	kick on the arms
	cut away
	cut with a hacking tool
	be able to manage or manage successfully

Difference between plodder and hack

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