Peon

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peon \Pe"on\, n.
     See {Poon}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Peon \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]
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     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Chess) See 2d {Pawn}.
        [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Poon \Poon\, n. [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}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  peon
       n : 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)