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peon/ˈpi:ən/n. 1 /also 亦作 perˈɒn/ a Spanish-American day labourer or farmworker (西班牙裔美洲人)短工(农工) 2 /also 亦作 pju:n/ an Indian office messenger, attendant, or orderly (印度的)信差，随从，勤务兵 3 a bullfighter's assistant 斗牛士助手 4 hist. a worker held in servitude in the south-western US [史义] (美国西南部的)抵债苦工，抵债奴 5 N. Amer. a menial or drudge [北美]苦工 □ peonage n.[Portuguese peɑˉo & Spanish peon via medieval Latin pedo -onis ‘walker, foot soldier’ from Latin pes pedis ‘foot’: cf. PAWN1] |