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cocotzacua.

Headword: 
cocotzacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to go without eating (?)
"atravesar bocado" = no comer nada; Eladio Rodríguez González, Diccionario Enciclopédico Gallego Castellano, 1961, 275.

Orthographic Variants: 
cocotzaqua
Alonso de Molina: 

cocotzaqua. nino. (pret. oninococotzacu.) atrauesarseme el bocado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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