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axixpan.

Headword: 
axixpan.
Principal English Translation: 

a place where people urinate; or, a dung heap, rubbish heap, place where dirt is put or is obtained (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

axixpan. muladar, o lugar donde se proueen.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

I zan omocalaqui, in cuauhtla, i zacatla; ihuan inehuian omoquixti in axixpan, in cuitlapan = Sólo por su propia voluntad se metió en el bosque, en el zacatal; él mismo se metió en los orinaderos, en el lugar del excremento (centro de México, s. XVI)
Josefina García Quintana, "Exhortación de un padre a su hijo; texto recogido por Andrés de Olmos," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 158–159.

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