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pe·on ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pn, pn)
n.
An unskilled laborer or farm worker of Latin America or the southwest United States.
Such a worker bound in servitude to a landlord creditor.
A menial worker; a drudge.
(also pyn) In India and other parts of South and Southeast Asia, a person of menial position, especially a messenger, servant, or foot soldier.
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[Spanish, day laborer, from Medieval Latin ped, pedn-, foot soldier; see pioneer. Sense 3, possibly from Portuguese peão from Medieval Latin ped.]
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