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cuapapaca.

Headword: 
cuapapaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to scrub one’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāpahpāca
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːpɑhpɑːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀPAHPĀC(A) vrefl to scrub one’s head / se lava la cabeza (Z) [(2)Zp.67,169]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, PAHPĀC(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 60.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)