meeple
/ˈmiːp(ə)l/noun (plural same or meeples)
A small figure used as a playing piece in certain board games, having a stylized human form: each player is given eight wooden meeples you can’t move a meeple over a bridge unless a meeple is on the bridge at least two big meeple were stuck in that city for almost the entire game...
- You can place a tile, and then a meeple, so that you get in on his hard earned points just at the last second.
- While you can't place a meeple onto a city (or road) already claimed by another player, you can place a tile that links two claimed areas together.
- You don't get your lounging meeple back until the end of the game, when you get 3 points for every completed city connected by grassland to him.
Origin
Early 21st century: apparently a blend of my and a phonetic respelling of people and first used with reference to the board game Carcassonne.