ne'er-do-well vs slacker

ne'er-do-well

noun
  • A person without a means of support; an idle, worthless person; a loafer; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; a good-for-nothing. 

  • A person who is up to no good; a rogue. 

adj
  • Showing the characteristics of a ne'er-do-well: indolent, worthless, or roguish. 

slacker

noun
  • A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever. 

  • A user of the Slackware Linux distribution. 

  • A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X. 

  • One who procrastinates or is lazy. 

How often have the words ne'er-do-well and slacker occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )