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tetzcuino.

Headword: 
tetzcuino.
Principal English Translation: 

an ugly, deformed thing

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Cortés y Zedeño (1765), "diforme, cosa fea," translated to English here by Stephanie Wood, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tetzcuino/34133

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tetzcuino in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).