a name (Cuetzpal or Quetzpal); or a noun (cuetzpal), referring to a lizard, an iguana, or to a glutton
See an image that represents Cuetzpal in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
a ruler from the Mixteca, a Popoloca, had the name Quetzpal (Cuetzpal); he came to rule Quauhtinchan after Tecuhtlicozauhqui was ruined; he had children named Xochicozcatl, Quetzalecatl, and Ayoquantzin (Quauhtinchan, sixteenth century)
The name is also attested in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco for a Nahua male.
When used in the lower case, cuetzpal is an example of a suffixless noun (no -tl, -tli, or -in ending) meaning a glutton.