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chachacuatza.

Headword: 
chachacuatza.
Principal English Translation: 

to splatter mud (see Karttunen), to splash in the mud (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chachaquatza
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑtʃɑkwɑtsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

chachaquatza. nitla. (pret. onitlachachaquatz.) chapatear enel lodo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHACHACUATZ(A) vt to splatter mud / chapolear en el lodo (M) This is implied by CHACHACUACA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 44.

themes: 
Water
See also: 
chachacuaca.