Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

cuilchilquixtia.

Headword: 
cuilchilquixtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to get out of trouble (see Molina: salirseme el sieso); this expression seems to be tied to cuilchilli, the anus, in some way (SW)

IPAspelling: 
kwiltʃilkiːʃtiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cuilchilquixtia. nino. salirseme el siesso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

See also: 
cuilchilli.