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What does “tocar las narices” mean in Spanish?
Tocar las narices means to annoy, pester, or wind someone up — literally “to touch the noses.” Heard mainly in Spain, it’s the socially acceptable stand-in for the cruder tocar los cojones, so you can use it freely. Two flavors: ¡no me toques las narices! (“stop bugging me!”), and the self-directed tocarse las narices, “to laze about / do nothing.” Same nose, opposite energy.
The chess streamer mutters “me pueden ahí empezar a molestar… voy a tocar las narices un poquito” — “they could start bugging me there… I’ll be a bit of a nuisance,” meaning he’ll harass the opponent’s position. Note nariz is normally singular for the body part; the plural narices is what locks in the idiom and gives it its breezy, exasperated tone. A clear regional marker of Spain over Latin America.