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tzonicaquetza.

Headword: 
tzonicaquetza.
Principal English Translation: 

to turn something, someone upside down, to throw someone out headlong (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsonikɑketsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONICAQUETZ(A) vt to turn something, someone upside down, to throw someone out headlong / vaciar el cántaro de agua en la tinaja, o poner boca bajo la vasija, o volver maderos o cestos lo de arriba abajo, o echar a otro de cabeza en el agua o despeñarlo (M for tzonicquetza), echar a empujones a alguno de casa aunque le pese (M for tzonicquetza) [(2)Zp.71,174]. See TZONICA-, QUETZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 317.