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tocinohuia.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
tocinohuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to apply bacon (hot bacon fat?) to another person (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, tocino, bacon)

Orthographic Variants: 
tocinouia
Alonso de Molina: 

tocinouia. nite. (pret. onitetocinoui.) pingar a otro con tocino.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.