a worker on a farm in Latin America （拉丁美洲的）农场工人 - (North American English, humorous)
a person with a hard or boring job that is not well paid and not considered important 苦力；苦工
Word Originfrom Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘walker, foot soldier’, from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot’. Compare with the noun pawn.