Synonyms of the word

plodder

• n. One who plods.
• n. A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously.

dawdler

• n. a person who dawdles or idles.

drone

• n. A male bee or wasp, which does not work but can fertilize the queen bee.
• n. (now rare) Someone who does not work; a lazy person, an idler.
• n. One who performs menial or tedious work; a drudge.
• n. A remotely controlled aircraft, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
• v. To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz.
• v. To speak in a monotone way.
• n. A low-pitched hum or buzz.
• n. (music) One of the fixed-pitch pipes on a bagpipe.
• n. (music, uncountable) A genre of music that uses repeated lengthy droning sounds.
• n. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

drudge

• n. A person who works in a low servile job.
• n. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
• v. to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

footer

• n. (archaic) A footgoer; pedestrian.
• n. (computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page as identification of the document (compare…
• n. (in combination) something that is a stated number of feet in some dimension - such as a six-footer.
• n. (in combination) someone who has a preference for a certain foot - such as right-footer/left-footer.
• n. (chiefly Britain, slang) Football / soccer.
• v. (Ireland and Scotland, slang) To meddle with or pass time without accomplishing anything meaningful.

hack

• v. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
• v. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
• v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g.,…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account…
• v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
• v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective,…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something…
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with on an intimately technical level.
• v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
• v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
• v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
• v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
• v. To strike in a frantic movement.
• v. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
• n. A tool for chopping.
• n. A hacking blow.
• n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
• n. A dry cough.
• n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
• n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
• n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes…
• n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
• n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
• n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
• n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
• n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced…
• n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
• n. (slang, military) Time check.
• n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
• n. A kick on the shins in football.
• n. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom…
• n. A food-rack for cattle.
• n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
• n. A grating in a mill race.
• v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
• v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
• n. (obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
• n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack).
• n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
• n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
• n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney…
• n. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
• n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to…
• n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
• n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory).
• n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
• n. (obsolete) A procuress.
• v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
• v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
• v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
• v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
• v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
• n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for…
• v. To play hackeysack.

hacker

• n. (computing) One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
• n. (computing) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data, or to carry out malicious attacks.
• n. (computing) A computer security professional.
• n. Something that hacks; a tool or device for hacking.
• n. Someone who hacks.
• n. (US) One who is inexperienced or unskilled at a particular activity, especially a sport such as golf or…
• n. (US) One who operates a taxicab.

laggard

• adj. Lagging behind; taking more time than the others in a group.
• adj. (animal husbandry) Not growing as quickly as the rest of the flock or herd.
• n. One who lags behind; one who takes more time than is necessary or than the others in a group.

lagger

• n. One who installs lagging.
• n. (video games, informal) A player who lags (has a poor or slow network connection).
• n. (slang) A member of support staff responsible for contacting lawyers to check how a case is progressing.

pedestrian

• adj. (not comparable) Of or intended for those who are walking.
• adj. (comparable) Ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional.
• n. Somebody walking rather than using a vehicle; somebody traveling on foot on or near a roadway.

poke

• v. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
• v. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.
• v. (figuratively) To rummage as in to poke about in.
• v. (transitive, computing) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
• v. To put a poke on.
• v. To thrust with the horns; to gore.
• v. (informal, Internet) To notify.
• v. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
• n. A prod, jab, or punch.
• n. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
• n. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
• n. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with…
• n. (computing) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program…
• n. (now regional) A sack or bag.
• n. A long, wide sleeve; a poke sleeve.
• n. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
• n. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
• n. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs,…

slogger

• n. (cricket) A cricketer who attempts to score runs fast by attacking every ball that can be hit.
• n. (colloquial) One who hits hard; a slugger.

slowcoach

• n. (derogatory, Britain) a person who moves slowly.

slowpoke

• n. (US, Canada, mildly derogatory) A person who moves slowly or takes a long time to do something.

stick-in-the-mud

• n. (mildly insulting, idiomatic) Alternative spelling of stick in the mud.

trailer

• n. Someone who or something that trails.
• n. Part of an object which extends some distance beyond the main body of the object.
• n. An unpowered wheeled vehicle, not a caravan or camper, that is towed behind another, and used to carry…
• n. (US) A furnished vehicle towed behind another, and used as a dwelling when stationary; a caravan; a camper.
• n. (US) A prefabricated home that could be towed to a new destination, but typically is permanently left…
• n. (chiefly US, media) A preview of a film, video game or TV show.
• n. A short blank segment of film at the end of a reel, for convenient insertion of the film in a projector.
• n. (computing) The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise…
• n. (networking) The last part of a packet, often containing a check sequence.
• v. To load on a trailer or to transport by trailer.

trudger

• n. one who trudges.

walker

• n. The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant…
• n. A walking frame.
• n. (often in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
• n. A person who walks (or waulks) cloth, that is, who fulls it.
• n. A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.