peon
Low-ranking toiler
A peon is a worker of the lowest rank, especially one doing unskilled or menial labor.
The term originally referred to indebted laborers in Latin America bound to work until debts were paid.
Now it often describes anyone at the bottom of a hierarchy: I'm just a peon around here—nobody tells me anything.
The word carries connotations of powerlessness and expendability.
Person who toils
- handGrasping body part
- workmanMale manual laborer
- menialLowly and unskilled
- drudgeOne doing hard, dull labor
toiler · blue-collar · unskilled · grunt · hireling · coolie · navvy · roustabout
Feudal bound labor
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
- indenturedContracted to serve
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
- encomiendaForced indigenous labor grant
hacienda · plantation · sharecropper · tenant · caste · subjugation · vassal · serf
Person of lower rank
- minionServile subordinate
- lackeyServile follower or minion
- flunkyServile subordinate
- servantOne employed to serve
gofer · lowly · expendable · powerless · obedient · docile · subservient · inferior
worker
Person who toils
drudge · toiler · blue-collar · unskilled · grunt · hireling · coolie · navvy · roustabout · swamper
serfdom
Feudal bound labor
- feudalismLand-for-service social structure
- indenturedContracted to serve
- colonialismDomination through foreign settlement
encomienda · hacienda · plantation · sharecropper · tenant · caste · subjugation · vassal · serf · bondsman
underling
Person of lower rank
servant · gofer · lowly · expendable · powerless · obedient · docile · subservient · inferior · junior
farmhand
Agricultural employee
NPC
Uncontrolled game character
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- fodderCoarse livestock nourishment
- cannon-fodderTroops viewed as disposable
grunt · minion · low-level · expendable · swarm · horde · spawn · respawn
- ajedrezreina, caballo, mate
- farm workersfarmer, farmworker, hired hand, field hand, farm laborer
- farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
- laborerslaborers, day laborer, day labourer, day laborers, manual worker
- lackeyslackey, minion, flunky, underling, gofer
- social ranksking, queen, emperor, empress, noble
peonmaster
Authority or controller
slave driver · taskmaster · overseer · landowner · employer
- white peonyLight-colored ornamental blossom