TZOMOC something broken, scraped up / cosa rota y rasgada, o persona solícita y diligente, recia y fuerte (M for tzomoctic) [(1)Bf.1r]. M has several compounds with TZOMOC as an element with the sense of working hard at something, scraping away at it. TZOMOCNEM(I) has the sense of ‘to scrape along in life.’ See TZOMŌN(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 316.