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mexcalcocoyoc.

Headword: 
mexcalcocoyoc.
Principal English Translation: 

a drunkard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mexcalcohcohyoc
IPAspelling: 
meʃkɑlkohkohyok
Frances Karttunen: 

MEXCALCOHCOHYOC drunkard / borracho (T) [(1)Tp. 141]. M has cocoyonenemi ‘to crawl on all fours,’ which may contain another instance of what is the second element here. See MEXCAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 144.

themes: 
Alcohol, Hallucinogens