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chicocaqui.

Headword: 
chicocaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to understand something backwards

IPAspelling: 
tʃikokɑki
Alonso de Molina: 

chicocaqui. nic. vel. nitla. entender alreues algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHICOCAQU(I) vt; pret: -CAC to misunderstand something / entender al revés algo (M) [(1)Cf.094r] See CHICO, CAQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 49.