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Hong Kong Code-mixing Dictionary

A contemporary Cantonese-English dictionary

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Dalloyau

Definition: Originated from the name of a French food company, this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to a person's big buttocks or hitting someone's buttocks.

Usage: E.g. 香港顧客每次行過海港城或者各大商場分店,一見到個招牌就往往忍唔住用廣東話讀成「大籮柚」或者「打籮柚」,甚至連買雪糕同朱古力嗰陣都腦海自動洗腦 (Every time Hong Kong customers walk across a branch in Harbour City or a big shopping mall, they often can't help but pronounce the shop's sign as "big buttocks" or "hit buttocks" in Cantonese. Even when they are just buying ice-cream and chocolate, their minds are automatically brainwashed.)

Synonym: 大蘿柚; 打籮柚

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Definition: Originated from meat being very expensive back in the 1950s, this is a Kongish code-mixing idiom used by native Hong Kongers who like to joke about giving birth to a piece of cha siu rather than their children.

Usage: E.g. You are so naughty and never do well in school! I would rather give birth to a cha siu than you!

Synonym: 生舊叉燒好過生你

Reference: https://zolimacitymag.com/pop-cantonese-生舊叉燒好過生你-better-to-give-birth-to-char-siu-than-you/#:~:text=Sik6%20caa1%20siu,back%20into%20its%20own%20court.

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