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Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to describe having a short attention span or memory usually due to being tired.
Usage: E.g. 我今日好low ram呀。我諗食完飯之後就唔去下場喇。(I think I have a short attention span today. I think I will finish dinner and not go to the next round.)Synonym: 記憶力
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that refers to something that is like an eyesore to oneself because he or she cannot withstand it anymore.
Usage: E.g. 你地做成日都打爛野。我真係no eye see喇。(冇眼睇)Synonym: 冇眼睇Reference: https://hklanguage.home.blog/tag/kongish/
Definition: A code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to a Hong Kong girl with negative characteristics such as being materialistic, demanding, narcissistic, and suffering from 'princess sickness', and so on. The list of negative things can probably go on and on so it is better for the person reading this to search the internet themselves.
Usage: E.g. I am sick of my girlfriend! She is a Kong girl!
E.g. Can you stop being a Kong girl for a day? I need some freedom.
E.g. Kong girl: Will you buy me an LV handbag?Synonym: 港女Reference: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/things-to-do/7-signs-to-tell-if-youre-a-real-kong-girl
Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers as a more natural and effortless way to ask for another person's contact number to their mobile phone list.
Usage: E.g. 我唔係識左你好耐,不過可唔可以add左你先呀?(I haven't known you for long, but may I add you first?)
E.g. 其實ig D女狂add 人係為左咩?(Why on earth are the girls on Instagram adding people wildly?)Synonym: 加Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/2309015/page/1
Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to display your level of knowledge, as if you come from higher education background.
Usage: E.g. 老闆:我覺得呢個idea好有potential。快D走去落實啦。
E.g. 我覺得你個人好有potential。不過就寸左D。
Definition: A code-mixing term that is used when you want to avoid describing someone as being '衰' or not nice.
Usage: E.g. 男仔:喂,我覺得你咁樣講野好衰呀。女朋友:你話我衰?!
E.g. 男仔:喂,我覺得你咁樣講野好mean呀。女朋友:講得岩。我有時講野係mean左D,不過唔至於係衰。
Definition: It is a slang used in casual, humorous contexts to describe the buttocks, often linked to the roundness of the full moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Usage: My first skateboard experience is i fell on my august 15th as soon as I stood on the board! Synonym: 八月十五Reference: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/32249/
Definition: A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers like to use to refer to the language channel that one is speaking in.
Usage: E.g. 做咩成日轉channel講英文呀?你喺到扮ABC呀?
E.g. 咪住。等我轉一轉channel講返中文先。