Etymology

bronco

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Today it means: A horse of western North America that is wild or not fully broken. Full definition →

Spanish bronco
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  1. Spanish · borrowed frombronco“rough”
  2. English todaybronco

Borrowed from Spanish bronco (“rough”), 19th c. which in Mexican usage also describes a horse that has not been broken and is still wild.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.