petty and tight, or miserable and scarce (see Molina; English translation here by Stephanie Wood)
Alonso de Molina:
tetlatlazomacani. mezquino y apretado, miserable y escasso. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 109v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.