for a woman to become startled or frightened by something (see Molina)
Alonso de Molina:
cuitlapammauhtia. nino. (pret. oninocuitlapanmauhti.) espantarse la muger con temor de algo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 27r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.