one-rabbit

verb

To inflict the 1454 famine on.

Meanings

verbone-rabbit (third-person singular simple present one-rabbits, present participle one-rabbiting, simple past and past participle one-rabbited)

present singular third person one-rabbits · participle present one-rabbiting · participle past one-rabbited · past one-rabbited · alternative One-Rabbit · alternative one rabbit · alternative One Rabbit

  1. transitivehistoryTo inflict the 1454 famine on.

    only a horrible drought would have entered the lexicon as “One Rabbiting,”

    2017, Benjamin D. Johnson, Pueblos Within Pueblos: Tlaxilacalli Communities in Acolhuacan, Mexico, ca. 1272–1692, Boulder: University Press of Colorado, page 73
    2 more examples

    The worst year, 1454, was One Rabbit, the year when the people were “one-rabbited”

    1989, Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, University of Arizona Press

    For four years there was famine. The fourth year was when everyone was “One-Rabbited.”

    1997, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder (eds. and trans.), Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico: The Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts collected and recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, volume 1, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, page 233

Origin

  1. Classical Nahuatlcētōchhuia
  2. Englishone-rabbit

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

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