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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peon \Pe"on\, noun See {Poon}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Peon \Pe"on\, noun [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}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Poon \Poon\, noun [Canarese ponne.] A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as {Calophyllum angustifolium}, {Calophyllum inophullum}, and {Sterculia f[oe]tida}; -- called also {peon}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
peon
noun: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge}, {navvy}, {galley slave}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "peon": apple-polisher, ass-licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, bootlick, bootlicker, brown-nose, brownie, 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
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
peon n. 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."
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
peon 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}] (2001-12-23)
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