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chichitotza.

Headword: 
chichitotza.
Principal English Translation: 

to cause something to sparkle, crackle, explode (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tʃitʃitotsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CHICHITOTZ(A) vt to cause something to sparkle, crackle, explode / hacer saltar las astillas, chispas, etc. (C) [(1)Cf.75r]. See CHITŌN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 49.