Hong Kong Code-mixing Dictionary

Definition: A code-mixing term that can also be used to refer to a non-human object.

Usage: E.g. 咁快開波？等我warm up吓先。 E.g. 同事A：喂，部機咁慢既？ 同事B：部機要warm up吓先得架。

Definition: Derived from '公主病', this is a Kongish code-mixing term that refers to a female who acts like a princess all the time and possesses the worst possible qualities such as narcissism and materialism. It tends to associate with Hong Kong women and is quite stereotypical of '港女', the Kong girl.

Usage: E.g. 港男：Why are you scolding me like this? Do you have princess sickness? (你做咩喺度鬧我呀? 你係咪有公主病?)

Synonym: 公主病

Reference: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/49823/

Definition: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to an employee with an experienced background, but not necessarily the adequate skills to do the job.

Usage: E.g. 我條team條senior，叫佢廢物都覺得侮辱左廢物依個詞語，日日例牌遲到都算，咩都唔識 (E.g. As for my team's senior, I think it would even be an insult to the word 'rubbish' if I were to call him rubbish. Not only is he late every day, but also he does not know anything.)

Synonym: 資深; 高級

Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/2386628/page/1

Definition: A Kongish code-mixing phrase that local Hong Kong students use to ask what the heck someone is talking about. Even though it looks like a westernised expression, spring actually refers to testicles and is quite rude when used as an expression.

Usage: E.g. Ho lun dor jargon ar. Up mud spring ar? (So many f***ing jargon. What the testicles are you saying?)

Synonym: 噏乜春

Reference: https://www.hk01.com/熱爆話題/364993/konglish瘋狂洗版-ga-yau係點解-即睇港式英語大測試

Definition: A Kongish code-mixing term used to describe how poor (慘) someone is.

Usage: E.g. I cried coz I am very chaam. E.g. 今次考試肥左真係好chaam。 E.g. 做到扒左喺到咁真係ｃｈａａｍｃｈａａｍ豬。

Synonym: 慘

Reference: https://topick.hket.com/article/3056055/【港式英文】嫌米綫店「updup」及食客「wuddud」%20%20%20%20港女IG發文形容好「Chaam」

Definition: (verb) A code-mixing term that local Hong Kongers like to use to refer to paper being stuck in a printer.

Usage: E.g. 個printer又jam紙？唔係掛？

Synonym: 卡住紙

Reference: https://www.threads.net/@hongtonese/post/C8zlfwZytLZ

Definition: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to the numerical maximum and minimum of something such as salary, rather than something like an area or three dimensional.

Usage: E.g. expected salary寫左一個range(20-23k) 依個range hr話ok 但冇同我講offer最後會出幾錢 (I wrote 20 to 30k for expected salary and the human resources department said it was okay, but they did not tell me how much the offer would be at the end.)

Synonym: 薪酬範圍

Reference: https://www.threads.com/share/BBJcLB6BK2/

Definition: Often used as 'Ah sir' (阿sir), this is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to refer to a male teacher. (Also see 'Missy' for female teacher)

Usage: E.g. 阿sir，我今日冇帶功課。可唔可以唔好罰我呀？

Reference: http://www.cmi.hku.hk/Ref/Article/article02/01.html

Definition: (textspeak) Transliterated from '無啦啦', this is a Kongish code-mixing term that is used as an adverb to describe something that happened suddenly and unexpectedly.

Usage: E.g. Kui mo la la da ngo! Chi jor sin! (佢無啦啦打我！痴左線！)

Synonym: 無啦啦

Definition: A term that seems to originate from the English culture and can hardly be replaced by the Cantonese equivalent term '常識'.

Usage: E.g. 喂，你咁快就落搭，有冇common sense架？ E.g. 一睇就知係搵笨啦，你有冇common sense架？ E.g. 你好似有常識，不過冇common sense。

Synonym: 常識

Reference: https://www.gushiciku.cn/dl/0pydp/zh-hk