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meeple

noun
/ˈmiːpəl/UK

Etymology

Blend of my + people. Coined by Alison Hansel in November 2000 during a game of Carcassonne on the South Shore of Massachusetts.

  1. derived from *poplos✻ — “army”
  2. derived from populus
  3. inherited from puple
  4. compounded as meeple — “my + people”

Definitions

  1. A small person-shaped figure used as a player's token in a board game.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:meeple.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for meeple. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA