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chicocua.

Headword: 
chicocua.
Principal English Translation: 

half eaten, partially eaten (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicoqua
Alonso de Molina: 

chicoqua. medio comido.
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

This "chico" is like the half or partial number of fingers, the root that gives us the combining "five" in numbers between five and ten.