peon

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
peon
    n 1: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge},
         {peon}, {navvy}, {galley slave}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Peon \Pe"on\, n.
   See {Poon}.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
      [1913 Webster]

   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
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 Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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 (8 July 2008)
peon

   <jargon> 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)
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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