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totopochtic.

Headword: 
totopochtic.
Principal English Translation: 

something toasted, crunchy (see Karttunen; see also Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totopochtic
IPAspelling: 
totopotʃtik
Alonso de Molina: 

totopochtic. cosa muy tostada, assi como pan, tortillas de mayz. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TOTOPOCHTIC something toasted, crunchy / cosa muy tostada, así como pan, tortillas de maíz, etc. (M) [(3)Zp.114,124,225]. See TOTOPOTZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 249.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking