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BORACHIO

Date "BORACHIO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

"BORACHIO" is a common misspelling or typo for: Brachia, Brachial, Brachium, Broached.


Specialty Definition: BORACHIO

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Literature

Borachio A drunkard. From the Spanish borachoe or borrach'o, a bottle made of pig's skin, with the hair inside, dressed with resin and pitch to keep the wine sweet. (Minsheu.)
Borachio. A follower of Don John, in Much Ado About Nothing, who thus plays upon his own name:-
"I will, like a true drunkard [borachio ], utter all to thee."- Act iii. 5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

BORACHIO. A skin for holding wine, commonly a goat's; also a nick name for a drunkard. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BORACHIO

English words defined with "BORACHIO": Borracho. (references)

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Image Slideshow: BORACHIO

Computer Images:
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Anagrams: BORACHIO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-i-o-o-r"

-2 letters: broach, brooch.

-3 letters: abhor, achoo, baric, birch, boric, brach, carbo, carob, chair, chiao, chiro, choir, cobia, cobra, coria, ichor, orach, rabic, roach.

-4 letters: abri, arch, arco, bach, boar, boor, bora, brio, broo, carb, chao, char, chia, ciao, coho, coir, crab, crib, hair, hoar, hobo, hora, obia, ohia, orca, rich.

-5 letters: abo, air, arb, arc.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-i-o-o-r"
 

+2 letters: acrophobia, brachiopod.

 

+3 letters: acrophobias, agoraphobic, brachiopods, branchiopod, bronchiolar.

 

+4 letters: agoraphobics, branchiopods.

 

+5 letters: biogeographic, opisthobranch, trophoblastic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BORACHIO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4F 52 41 43 48 49 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001111 01010010 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#79 &#82 &#65 &#67 &#72 &#73 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004F 0052 0041 0043 0048 0049 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3649523537424349

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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