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a male or a female dog; in the Florentine Codex, the term chichi is paired with itzcuintli, xochcocoyotl, tetlami, and tehuitzotl
See an image that represents chichi in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
quinechicozque yn chichime = [he ordered that] the dogs be rounded up
Teizolo, tecatzauh. Inin tlatolli: itechpa mitoa: in amo qualli nemiliztli, azo tlatoltica: mitoaya: intla aca pilli, anozo tecutli in zan iliuiz tlatoa, in iuhqui chichi. = Something that mars and soils people. This was said about a way of living or speaking that was wrong. It was said if some noble or lord spoke rashly or snapped at people savagely like a dog.
This is an example of a suffixless noun (no -tl, -tli, or -in ending).
amo iuhquj tichichi, ticquativetziz, ticquetzontivetziz in tlalticpacaiotl = thou art not to devour, to gulp down the carnal life as if thou wert a dog (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Inimequez nahualtin tlanonotzalo quemen mocuepa quemanian de yolcatl, de chichi, de miztli, de cuanaca, o nozo mocuepa in texcaltin. = Cuentan que estos nahuales a veces se vuelven animales--perros, gatos, gallinas--o se vuelven peñascos. (s. XX, Milpa Alta)