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Hong Kong Code-mixing Dictionary

A contemporary Cantonese-English dictionary


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posh

Definition: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to describe someone or something that is of upper class quality such as the way a person talks and does things, regardless of occupation or how much money one makes.

Usage: E.g. posh 嘅 British accent 好 posh 大部份都唔 posh (A posh British accent is really posh, but most are not posh.)

Synonym: 高雅

Reference: https://www.threads.com/share/BAa2pmfXlQ/

appreciate

Definition: A posh way of saying that you admire someone's work or effort, in order to show your high social status or higher education background.

Usage: E.g. 我好appreciate你個idea. Well done. E.g. 我好appreciate你做既野。不過,你都唔可以迫我accept你個apology。

Synonym: 欣賞

Victoria girl

Definition: Derived from Victoria Harbour and upgraded from 'Kong girl', this is a code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to describe a Hong Kong girl who is arrogant, sharp-tongued and overly self-important, like having "blue-blood" princess-like attitude. When compared with the 'Kong girl', the only real difference seems to be that the girl is proud of being called a 'Victoria girl' rather than a 'Kong girl' because the former sounds more elegant and posh while the latter sounds more of a deragatory term.

Usage: E.g. I can't believe I went from being an egg tart girl in housing estates to Rosewood hotel-level. I am now a Victoria girl and I'm proud of it.

Synonym: 維多利亞妹, 維妹

Reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUn44TmjESh/?img_index=4&igsh=YWluejFiZm1rdHdp (use mobile version)

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