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.