A drunk or drunken person; also, a leather bag for holding wine or spirits (variant of borracha).
From Spanish borracho, meaning drunk, from the same root as borracha. The connection comes from the wine-carrying leather bags becoming associated with heavy drinking.
In Shakespeare's time, English writers borrowed 'borrachio' to describe a drunkard—it shows up in plays as a colorful insult, and the word perfectly captures how Elizabethan England was fascinated by Spanish culture and borrowed their vocabulary.
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