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cueciuhqui.

Headword: 
cueciuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone intelligent, nimble, lightweight, mischievous (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuehciuhqui
IPAspelling: 
kwehsiwki
Frances Karttunen: 

CUEHCIUHQUI someone intelligent, nimble, lightweight, mischievous / inteligente, ligero, liviano (T) [(1)Bf.11v, /K068/ (I)Tp.121]. In the B attestation the sense seems to be ‘disobedient.’ See CUEHCIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 69.