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定義: 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.
用法: 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?
同義詞: 港女
參考: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/things-to-do/7-signs-to-tell-if-youre-a-real-kong-girl
定義: A romanised code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to the red packets of cash given as gifts during Chinese New Year. Even though the first character of the phrase should be pronounced as 'lai' or 'lei' with a short vowel in Cantonese, it is often pronounced as 'laai' with a long vowel when in romanised form, leading to the expression sounding like 'laai see' (瀨屎), which means to poop in one's pants in Cantonese.
用法: E.g. Expat: Have you got any lai see during Chinese New Year? HK'er: Laai see? Sure! I have laaaai see today. Just kidding.
同義詞: 利是
參考: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/2007/
定義: A romanised code-mixing term that Hong Kong expats use to describe a female who is pretty, or a male who is handsome, or an object that is good-looking.
用法: E.g. You look very leng today! (你今日好靚呀!) E.g. Wa! This dress ho leng ah! (哇!呢條裙好靚呀!) E.g. You are so leng jai! (你好靚仔呀!)
同義詞: 靚
參考: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?1,91
定義: Purportedly to have come from ‘娘’ meaning an old married woman, this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to describe someone’s appearance as old-fashioned.
用法: E.g. 你今日著衫好leung!(You dress very old-fashioned today!)
同義詞: 娘
參考: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,140076,140076
定義: 好像kam(第6聲)?1的「?」也是由lift翻譯過來,香港開埠以來人民就懂了,沒有人會說「請按升降機」或「請按電梯」,別人會覺得很作。廣東話的精粹是快和短,許多文書上的雙詞在口語上普遍用一個字來形容。這些例子日後再談。(It seems that the "lip" (1st tone) is also translated from 'lift' in English, just like 'kam' (6th tone). Since the start of Hong Kong, people have already understood this. No one will say "please press the elevator" or "please press the escalator". The essence of Cantonese is fast and short. Many doublet words in documents are commonly expressed as one word colloquially.)
用法: E.g. 大廈部lift最近好嘈, 小弟住高層,我係屋企成日聽到樓上傳來磅磅聲,全日都有呢種聲 (The lift in the building has been very noisy lately. I live on a high floor, and I often hear banging sounds upstairs at home. There is this kind of sound all day long.)
同義詞: 升降機; 電梯
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3651008/page/1
定義: Derived from the internet slang 'laugh out loud'. this is a cliche code-mixing term that has grown out of the textspeak medium into human speech. As opposed to 'lol' being such an overused term on the internet where the meaning is often not that literal, the term is used by westernised Hong Kongers to really mean laugh out loud.
用法: E.g. 睇完套戲真係lol左。(I really laughed out loud after watching the movie!)
同義詞: 大聲笑, 撈
定義: A romanised code-mixing term that is used to describe something, a person, or state as being so-so, or just okay in quality.
用法: E.g. A: How was the event? B: Ma ma dei la. E.g. A: How are you today? B: Ma ma dei la. E.g. A: What do you think of this shirt? B: I think it's ma ma dei.
同義詞: 麻麻地
參考: https://www.localiiz.com/post/culture-local-stories-guide-hong-kong-descriptive-slang-phrases
定義: A romanised Cantonese phrase that westernised Hong Kongers use to ask the waiter to get the bill.
用法: E.g. Mai daan, mm goi! (埋單, 唔該!)
同義詞: 埋單
參考: https://homekong.com.hk/blogs/read/helpful-cantonese-phrases-to-know
定義: A romanised code-mixing term that is used by Fake ABC's in Hong Kong to refer to '米線', which is a type of noodles that is very popular in Hong Kong and China.
用法: E.g. 港女:Im so broke so I went into a random updup maiseen place eat din alone...
同義詞: 米線
參考: https://topick.hket.com/article/2254771/wuddud=核突%E3%80%80港女「流利」港式英語投訴米線店考起網民
定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kong girls love to use to ask their boyfriends whether they feel sad or regret about not having their presence at times, as ‘掛住‘ in Cantonese could just be merely thinking about someone without such emotions, which is not enough to satisfy a Hong Kong girl’s demands.
用法: E.g. 呢幾日我地冇見。有冇miss我呀? (We have not seen each other these several days. Do you miss me?)
同義詞: 掛住, 想念
參考: https://www.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=17173491