potterer vs laggard

potterer and laggard both are nouns.

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

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

potterer: a person who putters about
laggard: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

Other hypernyms of potterer include dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer.

potterer (noun)	laggard (noun)
a person who putters about	someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind

potterer (adjective)	laggard (adjective)
	wasting time