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campaxilhuia.

Headword: 
campaxilhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to eat what has been snatched away from someone else (see Molina); or, to nip at something or someone, to swallow something without chewing (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑmpɑʃilwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

campaxilhuia. nicte. (pret. onictecampaxilhui.) comer lo que arrebato a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CAMPAXILHUIĀ applic. CAMPAXOĀ. CAMPAXOĀ vt to nip at something or someone, to swallow something without chewing / morder a alguien sin llevarse el pedazo (S), comer apriesa, tragando sin mascar (C) [(1)Cf.65r].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 24.