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xolehua.

Headword: 
xolehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to scrape or skin with a blow (see Molina); or, to be bare, hairless

Orthographic Variants: 
xoleua
IPAspelling: 
ʃoleːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

xoleua. nino. (pret. oninoxoleuh.) rozarse o desollarse con golpe.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XOLĒHU(A) vrefl,vt to get skinned up by a blow; to peel something / rozarse o desollarse con golpe (M), lo pela (T) See EHU(A).

XOLĒHUILIĀ applic. XOLĒHU(A).

XOLĒHUALŌ nonact. XOLĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 330.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Xipinqualamancaiotl: xoleoa = Soft part of the head of penis: it is bare.
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 10, f. 86v, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/86v