bacanora

See also: Bacanora

English

Etymology

From Spanish bacanora, from the name of the Mexican town Bacanora.

Noun

bacanora (countable and uncountable, plural bacanoras)

1. A Mexican alcoholic beverage distilled from agave plants, made in the state of Sonora.
   • 1989, Charles S. Park, Conflict at the Border: True Tales Of a U.S. Customs Border Officer!, Phoenix, AZ: Golden West Publishers, →ISBN, page 87:

     “Well,” he calls out, “that Daisy mare musta foaled by now. Come on in and we'll knock back another bottle of bacanora to celebrate.”
     “You and your goddam bacanora,” Ole Man Benson yells, shaking his fist up at my Ole Man.

Translations

Mexican alcoholic beverage

• Spanish: bacanora m

Spanish

Noun

bacanora m (plural bacanoras)

1. bacanora

Further reading

• “bacanora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10