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xoxa.

Headword: 
xoxa.
Principal English Translation: 

to put the evil eye on someone

IPAspelling: 
ʃoːʃɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

xoxa. nite. (pret. onitexox). aojar o hechizar o ojear a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XŌX(A) vt to give someone the evil eye, to bewitch someone / aojar o hechizar o ojear a otro (M) [(1)Cf.1v].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 331.

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