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quiztiquiza.

Headword: 
quiztiquiza.
Principal English Translation: 

something that goes by or passes by quickly (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kiːstikiːsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

quiztiquiza. (pret. oquiztiquiz.) cosa que passa de presto.
quiztiquiza. ni. (pret. oniquiztiquiz.) salir de algun lugar arrebatadamente y de priesa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 90v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

quiztiquiza (verb) = to go forth hastily
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 162.