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mecahua.

Headword: 
mecahua.
Principal English Translation: 

a man with one or more mistresses

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/mecahua/54367. Translated here to English by Stephanie Wood.

Orthographic Variants: 
mecahuah
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

See also: 
mecatl.