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tlailoa.

Headword: 
tlailoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to dirty oneself (as in wet one's pants?), be frightened or humble oneself (intransitive); to fill something up with dirtiness or to damage and ruin something; or to turn the stomach of others (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

tlailoa. nino. (pret. oninotlailo.) ensuziarse o apocarse y aceuilarse en lo que dize o haze.
tlailoa. nitla. (pret. onitlatlailo.) henchir algo de suziedad o dañar y echar a perder alguna cosa, o reboluer a otros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 121v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.