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tencuecuenotl.

Headword: 
tencuecuenotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a foul-mouthed person, i.e., spewing bad language (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːnkwekwenotɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tencuecuenotl. hombre de mala lengua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 98v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tencuecuenotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

See also: 
tentli.
Tecuecuenotl.