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chahuazquime.

Headword: 
chahuazquime.
Principal English Translation: 

women who are jealous, arrogant, proud, or quarrelsome (see attestations); the available translations vary considerably, but they are all quite negative views of women (SW)

Attestations from sources in English: 

chaoazqujme = mujeres celosas = jealous women
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 52r. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/52r, García-Garagarza translation from Spanish to English.

"fière, cruelle, en parlant d'une femme" = proud or cruel when speaking about a woman
"soberuia muger, o renzillosa" = an arrogant or quarrelsome woman
Olmos 1875, 229. Recopilado por A. Wimmer y publicado en el Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chahuazquini/43516.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

chahuazquini = soberuia muger, o renzillosa, o cruel; traducido al francés como: "fière, cruelle, en parlant d'une femme."
Olmos 1875, 229. Recopilado por A. Wimmer y publicado en el Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/chahuazquini/43516.