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mauhcaaxixa.

Headword: 
mauhcaaxixa.
Principal English Translation: 

to empty the bowel out of fear (see Molina and Siméon)

Alonso de Molina: 

mauhcaaxixa. nino. (pret. oninomauhcaaxix) cagarse de miedo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

mauhcaaxixa (p. omauhcaaxix: nino-) = dejar de escapar sus excrementos por influencia del miedo
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 263.