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cuauhuaqui.

Headword: 
cuauhuaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to become skinny and dried up, speaking of a person; to look like a pole (see Molina); this is a verb, unlike cuauhuacqui

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhuaqui
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhuaqui. ni. (pret. oniquauhuac.) pararse flaco y seco como vn palo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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