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xoxopehua.

Headword: 
xoxopehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to stand in defiance (see Molina), or, to kick someone (Wimmer 2004)

Orthographic Variants: 
xoxopeua, xohxopehua
IPAspelling: 
ʃohʃopeːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

xoxopeua. nitla. (pret. onitlaxoxopeuh.) dar de pie con menosprecio.
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents xoxopehua in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

The Gran Diccionario Náhuatl has considerable discussion of xoxopehua, with various examples, with Wimmer (2004) citing Molina, Olmos, and Sahagún.
https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xoxopehua/76922