literally, a possessor of flowers; someone who bewitches or seduces women (Wimmer 2004, citing Sahagún); Sahagún describes a doer of evil, a feminine man, and a "pervert" in different books; Xochihua is also a person's name (attested male in one place and female in another)
in suchioa cioatlatole, cioanotzale = The pervert [is] of feminine speech, of feminine mode of address. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Wimmer (2004), quoted in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, notes that a Xochihuah, one who has flowers, is a metaphorical name for a transvestite or transsexual person.
ymota ytoca xochiva = father-in-law named Xochihua (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
Xochihua is a woman's name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 709v. (SW)