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chichia.

Headword: 
chichia.
Principal English Translation: 

to stalk or watch someone, preparing to do them harm; to become bitter (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

chichia. ni. (pret. onichichiac. vel. onichichix.) azedarse algo, o tornarse amargo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

chichia. nite. (pret. onitechichix.) asechar o aguardar a otro, para le hazer mal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

chichia (verb) = 1. to make bitter 2. to obey Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 152.