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huihuica.

Headword: 
huihuica.
Principal English Translation: 

to stagger; or, to go along with other people repeatedly (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uihuica
IPAspelling: 
wiːwiːkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

uiuica. nite. (pret. oniteuiuicac.) seguir muchas a algunos vezes yendo los acompañando.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĪHUĪCA vrefl,vt to stagger; to go along with other people repeatedly / bambolea (Z), seguir muchas a algunas veces yéndolos acompañando (M) [(2)Zp.18,169]. redup. HUĪCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.

Attestations from sources in English: 

huihuica (verb) = to follow in crowds, or often Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 154.

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