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English
Etymology
Ultimately from Old French bouton (“button”), metonymic surname for a button-maker, of Germanic origin. See button.
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Biden (plural Bidens)
- A surname.
- Joe Biden, 46th and current president of the United States (2021–present).
- Synonym: Brandon (derogatory)
2021 March 20, Maureen Dowd, “Old Pol, New Tricks”, in The New York Times:Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”
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(all terms are derived from Joe Biden)
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