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momoxtic.

Headword: 
momoxtic.
Principal English Translation: 

something torn open, tattered (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mohmoxtic
IPAspelling: 
mohmoʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

MOHMOXTIC something torn open, tattered / rasgado, rasgón, roto (Z) [(3)Zp.105,111,170]. The related verbs MOMOXTIYA and MOMOTZOĀ lack the internal glottal stop. See MOMOXTlĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 151.