A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
A person of low rank or importance.
He is well dressed in cheap clothing. Like an office peon whose wife works in a laundry.
A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman.
From a combination of Middle French pion, peon and Spanish peón, both from Late Latin pedōnem (“pedestrian”). Doublet of pawn.
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