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.