idler
Noun
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Person who does no work (synset 110217586)
"a lazy bum"is a type of: nonworker - a person who does nothingsubtypes:
- clock watcher - a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time
- couch potato - an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television)
- dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope - someone who wastes time
- dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer - someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
- daydreamer, woolgatherer - someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming
- goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account - an idle worthless person
- lazybones - a lazy person
- lie-abed, slugabed - a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour
- loon - a worthless lazy fellow
- shirker, slacker - a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime)
- slug, sluggard - an idle slothful person
- spiv - a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time
- sunbather - someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan
- trifler - one who behaves lightly or not seriously
- whittler - someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime)
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