[ˈpiːən], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a Spanish American day labourer or unskilled farm worker

- (in South and Southeast Asia) a low-ranking worker such as an attendant, orderly, or assistant
(e.g: the elder son is a peon at a nearby school)

- a bullfighter who uses banderillas (darts thrust into a bull's neck or shoulders); a banderillero


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