for a knife or something similar to become dented (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tempipixaui
IPAspelling:
teːmpipiʃɑwi
Alonso de Molina:
tempipixaui. (pret. otempipixauh.) mellarse el cuchillo, o cosa semejante. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 98r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.