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maquizcoatl chiquimolin.

Headword: 
maquizcoatl chiquimolin.
Principal English Translation: 

a gossiper, or someone who talks without thinking (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
maquizcoatl chiquimoli
Alonso de Molina: 

maquizcoatl. chiquimoli. chismero, o malsin.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 52v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents maquizcoatl chiquimolin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Behavior, Personality
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition