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tzitzica.

Headword: 
tzitzica.
Principal English Translation: 

to swarm; to fit something tightly through a small hole (see Molina); or, to stuff something tight, to compress something in a container (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsitsiːkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tzitzica. nitla. (pret. onitlatzitzicac.) atorar o meter algo muy apretado en algun agujero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZITZĪCA vt to stuff something tight, to compress something in a container / atorar o meter algo muy apretado en algun agujero (M) [(1)Cf.84v].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 315.