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one-rabbit

verb

Etymology

Calque of Classical Nahuatl cētōchhuia, from cē tōchtli (“One Rabbit”, the year 1454 in the Aztec calendar) + -huia

Definitions

  1. To inflict the 1454 famine on.

    • The worst year, 1454, was One Rabbit, the year when the people were “one-rabbited”
    • For four years there was famine. The fourth year was when everyone was “One-Rabbited.”
    • only a horrible drought would have entered the lexicon as “One Rabbiting,”

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