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, (borraccio 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.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 91. With chuffe chaffe wynesops lyke a gourd bourrachoe replennisht.
1594. Greene, Look. Glasse, Wks. (1861), 133. A borachio of kisses.
1615. trans. De Monfart’s Surv. E. Indies, 5. They make their prouison of water in great Borachoes, made of whole goat-skins.
1616. B. Jonson, Devil an Ass, II. i. (1631), 113. Leather … like your Borachio Of Spaine, Sir.
1629. Capt. Smith, Trav. & Adv., xiii. 25. The milke they keepe in great skinnes like Burracho’s.
1658. Ussher, Ann., 104. Camels loden with borachoes or lethren baggs full of water.
1736. Bailey, Houshold Dict., 260. Such [wines] as have the Borachio or hogskin flavour.
1775. Phil. Trans., LXVI. 258. An elastic gum bottle, otherwise called boradchio or caoutchouc.
2. A drunkard, a mere ‘wine-bag.’
[1599. Shaks., Much Ado, IV. ii. 11. What is your name, friend? Bor. Borachio.]
a. 1627. Middleton, Span. Gipsy, I. i. I am no borachio.
1700. Congreve, Way of World, IV. i. (J.). Fogh! How you stink of Wine!… You’re an absolute Borachio.
