Peon vs. Surf — What's the Difference?

Peon (English , from the Spanish peón [peˈon]) usually refers to a person subject to peonage: any form of wage labor in which a laborer (peon) has little control over employment conditions. Peon and peonage can refer to both the colonial period and post-colonial period of Latin America as well as the period after the end of slavery in the United States, when "Black Codes" were passed to retain African American freedmen as labor through other means.

The waves of the sea as they break upon a shore or reef.

A person who does menial or repetitive tasks and has a low rank in an organization or society.

To engage in surfing.

An unskilled laborer or farm worker of Latin America or the southwest United States.

(Informal) To look at a variety of things casually, especially while browsing the internet or television channels.

Such a worker bound in servitude to a landlord creditor.

To ride on or along (a wave) on a surfboard.

(also pyn) In India and other parts of South and Southeast Asia, a person of menial position, especially a messenger, servant, or foot soldier.

To engage in surfing at

A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.

(Informal) To browse (the internet or television channels, for example).

(figurative) A person of low rank or importance.

Waves that break on an ocean shoreline.

A messenger, foot soldier, or native policeman.

An instance or session of riding a surfboard in the surf.

See Poon.

A dance popular in the 1960s in which the movements of a surfboard rider are mimicked.

A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.

The bottom of a drain.

A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.

To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.

See 2d Pawn.

To surf at a specified place.

A laborer who is obliged to do menial work

To bodysurf; to swim in the surf at a beach.

(ambitransitive) To browse the Internet, television, etc.

The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.

The bottom of a drain.

Waves breaking on the shore

Ride the waves of the sea with a surfboard;

Look around casually and randomly, without seeking anything in particular;

Switch channels, on television