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a little error committed on account of a distraction (see Molina and definitions of gazapo, gazapillo, in Spanish)

to become bestial, literally to become a rabbit

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tochtli Ic Onoc Tzatzapotlan, Tochtli Yc Onoc Tzatazpotla

one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

Orthographic Variants: 
tochi, Tochtl, dochtl, dochtli

rabbit; a calendrical marker and the shape seen in the moon; a person's name (attested male); and, slang for a woman's genitals

Orthographic Variants: 
tociuayo

the woman's "seed" (ovum)

a personal name; attested male

(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), 72.

Orthographic Variants: 
tozihuitl

the feather of a bird of yellow color (from the toztli bird), used for rites, dance, and "sorcery"
A. Wimmer, citing Garibay, and published in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tocihuitl/73946. Translation to English by Stephanie Wood.
The orthographic variant with the "z" has not yet been attested, but we are including it here given that the feather comes from the toz(tli) bird.

a bacon seller; butcher
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
tocino chiauacayotl

bacon fat (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)

to apply bacon (hot fat?) on a slave (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)

a ham; or, the thigh of a pig (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
tocinouia

to apply bacon (hot bacon fat?) to another person (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)