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xochipoloa.

Headword: 
xochipoloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to indulge in sweets

Orthographic Variants: 
xuchipoloa
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːtʃipoloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

xuchipoloa. nino. (pret. oninoxuchipolo.) golosinear.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

xochipoloa. nino. (pret. oninoxochipolo.) golosinear.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XŌCHIPOLOĀ vrefl to indulge oneself with delicacies / golosinear (M) [(1)Cf.71v]. M has the variant xochpoloa. In this construction XŌCHI has the extended sense of ‘something precious, delicate’ rather than its literal sense of ‘flower.’ See XŌCHI-TL, POLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.