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Definition: 許多香港人的廣東話是直接由英文翻譯過來，譬如Bearing，Barrack。平時口語叫「啤1令2」及「1巴1叻」(讀力第1聲)，比起說「輪軸」及「儲物房」在交流上更加方便易明。(Many Hong Kongers translate Cantonese directly from English, such as Bearing and Barrack. Said as "啤1令2" and "1巴1叻" (pronounced 1st tone), it is more convenient and understandable than saying "wheel shaft" and "storage room".)
Usage: 車輪啤令鬆脫，電動車在行車時發出了雜聲 (The wheel bearing came loose, causing the electric vehicle to make abnormal noises while driving.)
Synonym: 啤令，巴叻; 士巴拿spanner
Definition: Pronounced as 'bee-lee-bah-la', this is a code-mixing onomatopoepic phrase used by native Hong Kongers in a 90's limerick to describe someone talking a lot, loudly or fast.
Usage: E.g. XXX（人名）未夠18歲學人揸飛機，跌落屎坑執玻璃，返到屋企唔忿氣，BiLiBaLa放臭屁，阿媽以為漏煤氣，原來衰仔放緊屁。(E.g. XXX (name) learned to drive a plane under 18 years old, and fell into the toilet to pick up the glass. He returned home feeling resentful, then kept talking a lot and made a stinky fart. His mother thought there was a gas leak, but it turned out that the bad boy was farting.)
Synonym: 嗶哩叭啦
Definition: Often pronounced as '波士', this is a more polite sounding code-mixing term that Hong Kongers often use to refer to '老闆', especially when working in a corporate company.
Usage: E.g. 做波士就好啦。我地呢班打工仔一世做奴隸。
Reference: https://www.gushiciku.cn/dl/0pydp/zh-hk
Definition: A code-mixing term that only upper class Hong Kongers know how to use to refer to a meal where people serve themselves the food because of the French origin of the word which makes it so hard to pronounce properly.
Usage: E.g. A: 放假不如食buffet呀？B: 你指蒲飛？(A: What about eating buffet during holiday? B: You mean po-fei?)
Synonym: 蒲飛
Reference: https://hk.news.yahoo.com/生日飯-餐廳-推介-推薦-生日餐廳-235652146.html
Definition: A Kongish code-mixing phrase that working class Hong Kongers use to describe a business structure that scams people and is prone to collapse or failure, as 'chicken' (雞) in Cantonese can also be used to describe something cheap or weak.
Usage: E.g. This company has people coming to work and leaving the job all the time! Such build chicken shed!
Synonym: 搭雞棚
Reference: https://ukdodgy.com/2024/04/06/scam
Definition: Pronounced with a rising tone on the second syllable, this is a code-mixing term that refers to 'calculator'. Also used as 'cal機' sometimes.
Usage: E.g. 唔該借個cal機比我呀？ E.g. 試下用caltor check吓個answer。
Synonym: 計數機
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uik5GWvXiLA&t=210s
Definition: Pronounced as 'cam-mell' and criticised as Fake ABC English, this is a code-mixing term used by celebrity Janice man to refer to the animal 'camel'.
Usage: E.g. 其實我自己好鍾意cam-mell色既，真係好似D駱駝色既，有少少泥色既。
Definition: (noun) Pronounced with the sixth tone in Cantonese, this is a code-mixing term used by local Hong Kong students to refer to canteen in a highly efficient manner.
Usage: E.g. 淨係食過bu同city既can。(I have only eaten Baptist University's and City University's canteen.)
Synonym: canteen, 食堂
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/404559/page/2
Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kong businessmen to refer to something that they give a damn about, as the equivalent terms '理', '在乎' or '關心' in Cantonese sound too romantic or loving in a professional setting.
Usage: E.g. 我唔care你要OT到幾多點，總之要幫我搞掂。 E.g. 其實我都好care我既員工既福利。 E.g. 艾東care! (I don't care!)
Synonym: 理; 在乎; 關心
Definition: An alternative way of referring to someone who's getting on your nerves, as the equivalent term '挑戰' in Cantonese sounds too much like a real duel or battle and hence too provocative to use.
Usage: E.g. 老闆：夠喇。你唔好係到挑戰我。你:我幾時有挑戰過你呀？！ E.g. 老闆：夠喇。你唔好係到challenge我。你:*silence*
Synonym: 挑戰
