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Letter C/CH: Displaying 3881 - 3900 of 5789

cuāchachapal.

a person with a large head.
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cuāchachapaltic.

a person with a large head.
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cuachahcolāmitl.

a type of tree with hooked branches; it is used to hook s.t.
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cuachahcolānhuiā.

to put a forked stick on a pig’s or a bull’s neck so that it won’t pass through a fence.
# nic. Una persona le pone un palo en el cuello un puerco cuando se mete mucho en una milpa ajeno. “Martín le poso un palo a su puerco porque todo los días se metía en el potrero de Edgar”.
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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, cuachichic

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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