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   pe·on

   /ˈpēˌän/

   noun

   • 1. a Spanish American day laborer or unskilled farm worker.
   • ▪ a person who does menial work: North American "racing drivers aren't exactly normal nine-to-five peons"
   • ▪ a debtor held in servitude by a creditor, especially in the southern US and Mexico. historical
   • 2. (in South and Southeast Asia) a low-ranking worker such as an attendant, orderly, or assistant: "the elder son is a peon at a nearby school"

   Word Origin from Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘walker, foot soldier’, from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’. Compare with pawn1.

   Derivatives

   • 1. peonage noun

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • O

     1

   • N

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