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cuacuacua.

Headword: 
cuacuacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to masticate, to chew interminably (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuahcuacuā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑhkwɑkwɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAHCUACUĀ vt; pret: CUAHCUACUAH to masticate, to chew interminably / mascar el enfermo lo que no puede tragar, o el sano lo que está …. duro (C) [(2)Cf.128r,(3)Rp.125]. redup. CUACUĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 57.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking