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pochectic.

Headword: 
pochectic.
Principal English Translation: 

something sooty, smoke-blackened (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pōchectic, puchectic
IPAspelling: 
poːtʃektik
Alonso de Molina: 

puchectic. cosa ahumada. s. el que tiene color de cosa ahumada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PŌCHECTIC something sooty, smoke-blackened / tiznado, ahumado (T) [(2)Tp.113,176]. M has pochectilia 'to smoke something.' See PŌC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 199.