borracho

/boˈrat͡ʃo/ · A2 · adj

drunk, inebriated

🍷🥴 borracho ← borracha, the leather wine bag: full of wine like the wineskin

Etymology hook: Spanish borracha was a leather wineskin, and a borracho is someone as full of wine as that bag. Sound hook: the stressed middle syllable RRA is a rolled, slurred growl, the way a drunk person speaks.

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