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tlaixcuepani.

Headword: 
tlaixcuepani.
Principal English Translation: 

hypocrite, someone who turns things inside out and falsifies things (see Karttunen); to turn clothing inside out (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑiːʃkwepɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaixcuepani. el que buelue la ropa lo de dentro a fuera, o el falsario.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 122v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAĪXCUEPANI hypocrite, someone who turns things inside out and falsifies things / el que vuelve la ropa lo de dentro afuera, o el falsario (M), tiene dos caras, es hipócrita (T) [(1)Tp.230]. T also has this in a phrase with the reflexive prefix M- Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 272.