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chichicoloa.

Headword: 
chichicoloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to move like a snake, to weave from side to side (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīchihcōloā
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːtʃihkoːloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪCHIHCŌLOĀ vrefl to move like a snake, to weave from side to side / culebrea (Z) [(2)Zp.37,169]. redup. CHIHCŌLOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 48.

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Snakes, Serpents