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quequelli.

Headword: 
quequelli.
Principal English Translation: 

tickling, teasing, irritation; someone ticklish, irritable (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quehquelli
IPAspelling: 
kehkelli
Alonso de Molina: 

quequelli. coxquillas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 89r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUEHQUEL-LI tickling, teasing, irritation; someone ticklish, irritable / cosquillas (M), cosquilloso (T) [(1)Tp.177]. Z has this without the absolutive suffix with the sense of 'jester, joker.' See QUEHQUELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 208.