English

Alternative forms

• Xoloitzcuintle

Noun

Xoloitzcuintli ‎(plural Xoloitzcuintli)

1. A breed of dog, the Mexican Hairless.
   • 1991, Guillermo García Oropeza, Perros en las tumbas de Colima

     Whoever has petted a hairless dog will verify that these wrinkles are produced by a lack of hair, especially among the pups of the xoloitzcuintli.

   • 2005, Eduardo Kac, Telepresence and bio art: networking humans, rabbits, and robots

     The Mexican xoloitzcuintli (or xolo) is a likely GFP K-9 breed (fig. 77).

   • 2005, Kent V Flannery, Joyce Marcus, Excavations at San José Mogote 1: the household archaeology

     Owing to its hairless condition, the xoloitzcuintli visibly perspires...

Synonyms

• Mexican hairless
• Xolo

Classical Nahuatl

Noun

xoloitzcuintli ‎(animate)

1. The Mexican hairless; a landrace dog with both coated and hairless varieties.
   • 16th c.: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 11, f. 17r. col. 1.

     ¶ Otros perrillos •criauan, que / llamauan xoloitzcujntli que pe / njtas njngun pelo tenjan, ydenoche abrigauan los, cõ mantas para dor / mjr. Eſtos perros, no, nacen aſsi: sino / que de pequeños los vntan con reſina, / que se llama oxitl y con esto seles ca / ye el pelo, quedando el cuerpo / muy liso.

     ¶ They bred another dog, which they called xoloitzcujntli, that barely had any hair. At night the covered them with blankets to sleep. These dogs are not born this way, rather, they cover them with a resin called oxitl when they are young, causing their hair to all off, and thus exposing their tender body.

Descendants

• Spanish: xoloitzcuintle

References

• Rémi Siméon (1885) Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana, Siglo Veintiuno Editores