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popozoca.

Headword: 
popozoca.
IPAspelling: 
poposokɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

popozoca. (pret. opopozocac.) heruir la olla, ocosa asi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

POPOZOCA to boil hard, to foam / hervir la olla o cosa así (M), hervir con mucho ruido (C) [(1)Cf.73V, (I)Tp.175, (2)Zp.56,183]. See POZŌN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 203.