slogger, bruiser, lummox, mauler, puncher, fumbler, lankier, slickster, worldbeater, lunk, grafter, late bloomer, duffer, scatback, guy, hoper, mudder, piker, kidder, battler, lumbering, sparring partner, gym rat, showboater, bungler, beanpole, chump, bumbler, fibber, risk taker, ditherer, scrambler, sluggard, backslapper, wimp, fella, underachiever, scatterbrain, intimidator, quitter, ironist, dilettante, scrapper, volleyer, strider, stringbean, shrinking violet, needler, pretender, bluffer, leaper, sulker, maneuverer, nibbler, overachiever, skippy, mesomorph, cockier, bragger, poseur, bareknuckle, studier, compromiser, whinger, dominator, geezer, carthorse, male chauvinist pig, roarer, brawler, schmoozer, dreamer, weakling, elusiveness, waffler, prevaricator, footedness, chaser, mudslinger, intriguer, bloke, banger, prizefighter, whippersnapper, lantern jaw, practicer, outleap, persuader, runt, speedster, rangier, tyro, showman, clotheshorse, rhetorician, dolt, apparatchik, speedball, autodidact, generalship, schnook, flappable, plodding, drudge, toiler, toil, mechanic, toilers, tramp, workman, apprentice, drudgery, grind, inquirer, searcher, beginner, bookkeeper, copyist, husbandman, laborer, labourer, ploughman

dawdler, drone, drudge, hack, hacker, laggard

slogger, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud