| Pronunciation: | | 'peeun
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] a laborer who is obliged to do menial work |
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| | Synonyms: | | drudge, galley slave, navvy |
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| | See Also: | | jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Pe"on\, n.
See {Poon}.
\Pe"on\, n. [Sp. peon, or Pg. pe?o, one who travels on
foot, a foot soldier, a pawn in chess. See {Pawn} in chess.]
1. A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a
messenger. [India]
2. A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the
Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in
a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
3. (Chess) See 2d {Pawn}.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A person with no special (root or wheel) privileges on a computer system. "I can't create an account on foovax for you; I'm only a peon there." [jargon file] |
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| | See Also: | | jargon |
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| | Related Terms: | | apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, bootlick, bootlicker, brownie, brown-nose, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, clawback, concubine, countryman, countrywoman, courtier, creature, cringer, debt slave, dependent, dray horse, drudge, dupe, fawner, fellah, feudatory, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, galley slave, groveler, handshaker, hanger-on, helot, hind, homager, inferior, instrument, jackal, kowtower, lackey, led captain, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, liege subject, mealymouth, minion, muzhik, myrmidon, odalisque, peasant, provincial, puppet, retainer, serf, servant, slave, slavey, spaniel, stooge, subject, subordinate, suck, sycophant, theow, thrall, timeserver, toad, toady, toiler, tool, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, vassal, villein, workhorse, yeoman, yes-man |
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