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cuachala.

a sauce made from toasted maize
Elena Poniatowska, Hasta no verte, Jesús mío (1969), 35.

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cuachalania.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachalania

to hit one's head (see Molina)

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cuachalo.

a type of chile, perhaps the guajillo; it is an ingredient in the dish called cuachala.
Elba Castro, Sabor que somos (2006), 87.

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cuāchamoleh.

chicken with a comb.
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cuachcallalia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachcallalia

to cover something, to put up a canopy over something (see Molina)

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cuachcalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachcalli, cachcalli

a canopy; an awning; a canopy over a bed; an adornment; or, a tent made of waxed cloth (see Molina)

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cuachcalpipiloa.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachcalpipiloa

to put a canopy over a sitting area, or the like (see Molina)

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cuachcaltopilli.

kwɑːtʃkɑltoːpiːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cuāchcaltōpīlli

canopy pole, support (see Karttunen)

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cuachcalyahualli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachcalyahualli, quachcalyaualli

a bed canopy (see Molina)

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cuachehchelhuiliā.

to split thick wood for s.o.
#Partir tronco. Nic. persona parte en dos troncos de otro. “mi padrino parte mis troncos porque mi esposo esta enfermo y yo no puedo.”
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cuachehcheloā.

to split thick wood.
#partir tronco. Ni. persona parte tronco y hace chiquitos. “mi papa le mando a mi primo que parte el tronco porque no tiene que quemar.”
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cuachenche.

woodpecker.
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cuachic.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachic

the shorn one, a person who has been shorn; also, a strong male, a man, a warrior, an aggressor, a conqueror

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 23.

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cuāchicāhuac.

person who does not learn quickly.
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cuachichi.

a bench for sitting.
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cuachichictic.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichictic

an ecclesiastic with a crown (see Molina); or, people whose hair has been shorn (see attestations)

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cuachichictli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichictli

the crown of a member of the clergy (see Molina); see also our entry for cuachichictli, a word that referred to a special warrior's hairstyle

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cuachichictli.

kwɑːtʃitʃiktɬi

the hairstyle of the cuachic warriors, or the "shorn ones," and was characterized by the stiff ridge crest going along the head (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 112.

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cuachichil.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichil, cuachichiltic, quachichiltic

House Finch, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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cuachichiltic.

Orthographic Variants: 
quachichiltic

a bird with a red head (see Molina)

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