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cuacocototztic.

Headword: 
cuacocototztic.
Principal English Translation: 

curly, referring to a person or the person's hair (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quacocototztic
Alonso de Molina: 

quacocototztic. crespa persona, o de crespos cabellos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 84r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

amo quacocototztic = [he did] not [have] curly hair
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 64.