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papactic.

Headword: 
papactic.
Principal English Translation: 

something greasy, sticky (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
pɑpɑktik
Frances Karttunen: 

PAPACTIC something greasy, sticky / pegajoso, se siente el cabello pegajoso, grasiento (T)[(1)Tp.173].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 187.