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tlacuepani.

Headword: 
tlacuepani.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who makes excuses not wanting to do what he is begged or sent to do (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑkwepɑni
Alonso de Molina: 

tlacuepani. el que se escusa no queriendo hazer lo que le ruegan o mandan. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 119v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.