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Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers as a softer way of not responding to someone without acting like that person isn't there at all.
Usage: E.g. 畀男朋友ignore到灰 (I am being ignored by my boyfriend to the point of being very sad.)
Synonym: 無視
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/361401/page/5
Definition: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers sometimes use to refer to the Swedish furniture store.
Usage: E.g. A: 咁你係叫 IKEA 定宜家家居？B: 姨媽傢俬 C: 宜家傢俬 (A: So do you say IKEA or Yee-Ga Furniture? B: Auntie Furniture. C: Yee-Ga Furniture)
Synonym: 宜家傢俬
Reference: https://www.threads.com/share/FAxWjYYL-/
Definition: Derived from '寸' in Cantonese, this is a code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe someone who is cocky or arrogant.
Usage: E.g. 知道你叻喇！不過洗唔洗咁inch呀？（in廚)
Synonym: 寸
Reference: https://www.hk01.com/熱爆話題/159516/konglish-港式英語鬧爆疑似第三者-網民-香港人先會明嘅英文
Definition: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe people who are really just minding their own business but not necessarily alone or single.
Usage: E.g. 呢間bar啲人點呀？係唔係個個都好individual咁樣呀？ (How are the people in this bar? Are they all really just minding their own business?)
Synonym: 單獨
Reference: https://www.threads.com/@matthew_lam1116/post/DAcSyqdScem?hl=zh-hk
Definition: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers when they want to ask for a deeper analytical understanding of something.
Usage: E.g. 你睇完本書有咩insight? (What insights do you have after reading the book?)
Synonym: 見解; 睇法
Reference: https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/pure-data/pub/202301935/202301935_1.pdf
Definition: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use to refer to a meeting invitation sent out by the MS Outlook software.
Usage: E.g. 係咪聽日想開會傾呢樣野？唔該send個invitation黎先。
Synonym: 邀請
Definition: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to the formal document sent by a seller to a buyer as a request for payment, which is be differentiated from a receipt.
Usage: E.g. 你俾完錢收到嘅果張係叫收據，係receipt，但啲大陸人係統一叫發票。(What you receive after payment should be called a receipt, but mainland Chinese people also refer to it as an invoice.)
Synonym: 發票; 請款單
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/2808375/page/1
Definition: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to the information technology sector, which tends to be associated with the result of many wrongdoings and unfortunate happenings such as being laid off.
Usage: E.g. 上世做錯事 今世做it (My past life was filled with wrongdoings; This life got me into IT sector.) E.g. 少時讀IT,大個唔見天，裁員就你先。(If we choose to study IT when we were young, we will grow up not seeing the daylight. Company lay offs will also happen to us first.
Synonym: 資訊科技
Reference: https://www.threads.com/share/BAYf1twTSF/
Definition: A code-mixing phrase used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to describe something as more inferior in quality than another without saying it's of bad quality.
Usage: E.g. 我去過呢間bar。It's even worse!
Synonym: 更加差
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/3047481/page/1
Definition: With a literal meaning of 'humbly receive', this is a code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers who work in Japanese companies to express politeness before starting to eat a meal, which is equivalent to "Let's eat" in English.
Usage: E.g. A: Itadakimas! B: 其實係唔係一定要講？A: 唔係，不過有禮貌啲囉。(A: Itadakimas! B: Do we actually have to say this? A: No, but it's more polite if we do.)
Synonym: 開飯喇, 唔客氣喇, Let's eat
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itadakimasu
