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huexcacaqui.

Headword: 
huexcacaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to hear something reluctantly and with disgust

Orthographic Variants: 
uexcacaqui
IPAspelling: 
weʃkɑkɑki
Alonso de Molina: 

uexcacaqui. nic. (pret. onicuexcacac.) oyr algo con desgusto y de malagana.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huexcacaqui = oír algo de mala gana, con disgusto
Nelson Yolohmazatl, grupo "Nahuatl," Facebook, 3 sept 2013.