a long, narrow green chile pepper; and sometimes a reference to a penis Regarding the sexual connotation for chile, see the story about Tohuenyo in Miguel León-Portilla, Erótica nahuatl (México: El Colegio Nacional y Artes de México y el Mundo, 2018), 10–39, especially p. 38.
(Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century) Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 76.
atolli mixed with chile, used as a cure (Valley of Mexico, 1570–1587) The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 112.