a candy maker (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish)
Alonso de Molina:
confites chiuhqui. confitero. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.