to pace about aimlessly, wasting time; to kick out at something in anger (See Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
quehquetza
IPAspelling:
kehketsɑ
Alonso de Molina:
quequetza. nino. (pret. oninoquequetz.) espaciarse, o perder tiempo. 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:
QUEHQUETZ(A) vrefl.vt to pace about aimlessly, wasting time; to kick out at something in anger / espaciarse, o perder tiempo (M), dar patadas de coraje (C) [(2)Cf.71v,128r,(2)Zp.7,171,(1)Rp.182]. Z has this in a phrase about ears standing up, a literal distributive sense of QUETZ(A). C contrasts QUEHQUETZ(A) with QUEQUETZ(A) 'to trample on something.' redup. QUETZ(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 208.