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quequele.

Headword: 
quequele.
Principal English Translation: 

someone ticklish, irritable (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quehqueleh
IPAspelling: 
kehkeleh
Frances Karttunen: 

QUEHQUELEH someone ticklish, irritable / cosquilloso (Z) [(2)Zp.35,184]. Z lacks the glottal stop of the first syllable in both attestations. See QUEHQUEL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 208.