to turn in or over, to bend, cramp or get cramped; fig to shrink from, to refuse AN.iv.47 sq. (variant reading ˚kujjati) Mil.297 (pati˚; cp. Mil translation ii.156); Vism.347 (variant reading BB; T. ˚kuṭṭati); Dhp-a.i.71; Dhp-a.ii.42
caus patikoṭṭeti (q.v.)
pp paṭikuṭita (q.v.). See also paṭilīyati.

paṭi + kuṭ; as in kuṭila, cp. kuc & paṭikujjati