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tzincamactli.

Headword: 
tzincamactli.
Principal English Translation: 

the anus

Attestations from sources in English: 

tzincamactli = anus
uecatla = deep
pepeltic = round like a top
uecatlaniui = it becomes deep
pepeliui = it becomes round like a top (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 122.

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