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papazoltic.

Headword: 
papazoltic.
Principal English Translation: 

something or someone rough, bothersome (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pahpahzoltic
IPAspelling: 
pɑhpɑhsoltik
Frances Karttunen: 

PAHPAHZOLTIC something or someone rough, bothersome / tentón, travieso (T) [(1)Tp.172]. T has lost the glottal stop in the second syllable. Z has PĀPAHZOLTIC 'something disordered, messed up.' See PAHPAHZOL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 184.

themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)