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peon 音標拼音: [p'iən] n. 日工,雇農,聽差 日工,雇農,聽差 peon n 1: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [ synonym: { drudge}, { peon}, { navvy}, { galley slave}] 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]
Peon \ Pe" on\, n. See { Poon}. [ 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] 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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