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matzoyohua.

Headword: 
matzoyohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to have dirty, sweaty hands (see Molina and Siméon)

Orthographic Variants: 
matzoyoua
Alonso de Molina: 

matzoyoua. ni. (pret. onimatz oyouac) tener las manos llenas de suziedad y sudadas. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 53v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

matzoyoua (p. omatzoyoac, etc: ni-) tener las manos sucias y sudorosas
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 262.