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pipictic.

Headword: 
pipictic.
Principal English Translation: 

something tough, hard, sinewy (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pipīctic
IPAspelling: 
pipiːktik
Frances Karttunen: 

PIPĪCTIC something tough, hard, sinewy / correoso, duro (un palo que se raja con trabajo) (T) [(1)Tp.174,(4)Zp.48,183,232]. Z marks the vowel of the second syllable long, but T marks it short. See PĪCQUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 196.