to be a fool, buffoon, jester; or, to fool people, as a rogue, crook, scoundrel, knave, shyster (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
texoxoloti. chocarrero o truhan. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.