peon

7 definitions found

peon - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

  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]

  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]

peon - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  peon
      n 1: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge,
           peon, navvy, galley slave]

peon - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)
  

peon - 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."
  

peon - 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