putterer vs laggard

putterer and laggard both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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

putterer (adjective)	laggard (adjective)
	wasting time