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cuauhuacqui.

Headword: 
cuauhuacqui.
Principal English Translation: 

a person who is skin and bones, skinny (see Molina); this is a noun, unlike quahuaqui, which is the verb

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhuacqui
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhuacqui. hombre flaco que notiene sino los huessos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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