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‖ boˈrachio Obs.
Forms: 6 bourrachoe, 7 bor-, borracho(e, boraccio, -accia, borracio, burracho, 8 borrachio, borad-, 6–8 borachio.
[Adopted from Sp. or It.: cf. Sp. borracha leathern bag for wine, with borracho drunkard, masc. of borracho drunken; also It. boraccia, (borracio Baretti) ‘a boracho, or bottle made of a goates skin, such as they vse in Spaine’ (Florio).]
1. A large leather bottle or bag used in Spain for wine or other liquors.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 91 With chuffe chaffe wynesops lyke a gourd bourrachoe replennisht. 1594Greene Look. Glasse Wks. (1861) 133 A borachio of kisses. 1615tr. De Montfart's Surv. E. Indies 5 They make their prouison of water in great Borachoes, made of whole goat-skins. 1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass ii. i. (1631) 113 Leather..like your Borachio Of Spaine, Sir. 1629Capt. Smith Trav. & Adv. xiii. 25 The milke they keepe in great skinnes like Burracho's. 1658Ussher Ann. 104 Camels loden with borachoes or lethren baggs full of water. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 260 Such [wines] as have the Borachio or hogskin flavour. 1775Phil. Trans. LXVI. 258 An elastic gum bottle, otherwise called boradchio or caoutchouc.
2. A drunkard, a mere ‘wine-bag’.
[1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. ii. 11 What is your name, friend? Bor. Borachio.] a1627Middleton Span. Gipsy i. i, I am no borachio. a1729Congreve (J.) How you stink of wine!..you're an absolute borachio. |