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colochahui.

Headword: 
colochahui.
Principal English Translation: 

for clothing to get wrinkled (see Molina); for the bird to get curly (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
colochaui
IPAspelling: 
koːloːtʃɑwi
Alonso de Molina: 

colochaui. (pret. ocolochauh.) arrugarse la ropa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

colochaui = it becomes curly (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 111.

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing