tocar madera

Spanish

Verb

tocar madera (first-person singular present toco madera, first-person singular preterite toqué madera, past participle tocado madera)

1. to knock on wood (US), to touch wood (UK, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand)

Further reading

• “tocar madera”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10