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cuacualaca.

Headword: 
cuacualaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to thunder, rant, rave (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaqualaca
Alonso de Molina: 

quaqualaca tla. (pret. otlaquaqualacac.) tronar.
quaqualaca. (pret. oquaqualacac.) tronar, o hazer ruido lo que hierue enla olla a borbollones.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 85r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.