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定義: A romanised Cantonese phrase used by foreigners to bargain in a wet market, in order to get a bigger deal or low price. A 'la' is also usually added at the end for emphasis.
用法: E.g. This is fifty dollars? Peng di la!
同義詞: 平D
定義: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to refer to the all sorts of thicknesses of bread served with toppings because they have eaten at Pizza Hut too many times and don't believe that pizza is merely '薄餅', which translates to thin bread in Cantonese.
用法: E.g. A: 想唔想食pizza? B: 好呀，不過我要食厚嗰隻芝心批喎。(A: Want to eat pizza? B: Sure, but I want to eat the thick kind of pizza with stuffed crust.)
同義詞: 薄餅
參考: https://ufood.com.hk/restaurant/news/detail/20044615/全港10大Pizza推介-正宗意式口味-外脆內軟-邪惡拉芝/5
定義: A more polite way to refer to a person's standpoint, as the Cantonese equivalent term '點', meaning a dot, can refer to a woman's breast.
用法: E.g. 男人：喂，我真係好唔明你個point喎！女人：唔緊要。我慢慢解釋比你聽。 E.g. 男人：喂，我真係好唔明你個點喎！女人：你話我邊點呀？唔好性騷擾喎！
定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that native Hong Kongers use to describe a fat or ugly woman. (豬扒)
用法: E.g. I think this girl is such a pork chop! I have no interest in her at all! (豬扒)
同義詞: 豬扒
參考: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/16131/
定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kong salesman love to use as a strategy to advertise their products without sounding like they're doing it for the sake of spreading the word or selling their product.
用法: E.g. 我地公司兒家做緊promotion。你唔買就走寶喇喂。(Our company is now doing promotion. If you don't buy, you'll miss out.)
同義詞: 宣傳，推廣
定義: (verb) Originated from 'pick-up artist', this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to being emotionally manipulated by controlling behaviour of a person who is good at pick-up and chasing the opposite sex.
用法: E.g. 作為女性 聽到Juliana咁講 都覺得幾心酸 究竟之前一齊過幾年嘅ex 係點對待佢 令到佢覺得自己咁卑微 仲要傻到幫對方諗藉口 怪自己有問題 講真唔理係咪節目效果 聽落似係被PUA過 (As a female hearing what Juliana had to say, I feel quite sad to know that she had an ex-boyfriend who treated her like this while spending several years together. He just made her feel like low status and stupid enough to help the other person think of excuses and to blame herself for the problems. Honestly, I don't care if it is the effect of the TV show, but it sounds like she was PUA'ed before.)
同義詞: 被精神操控
參考: https://www.threads.com/share/BA2LSDyu6S/
定義: An ultra professional code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers especially senior managers to refer to a suitable candidate that can take over an employee's job so they don't have to sound like they are getting just anyone to take over a job for the sake of cutting costs.
用法: E.g. 之前公司有條友非高層secondment。每個月畀agent 160k 新老細嚟咗即刻炒佢。Replacement 可能一半價錢到 (I had a colleague in my past company who was not a senior level secondment position but paid the agency 160k per month. Then a new boss came and fired him immediately. The replacement could have been half the cost.)
同義詞: 搵人接替
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/2955436/page/2
定義: An ultra rhotic expression that is added onto the ending of Cantonese characters, which is adopted by Hong Kong celebrity Janice Man to create an ABC accent. Also known as 'JM tone'.
用法: E.g. 呢一區我淨係試過兩rrrrrrn間餐廳。E.g. 有時候我都幾想rrrrrn去吓旅行。
參考: https://medium.com/@atsunakai/jm-tone-%E5%8D%B3%E4%BF%82-94e3532186e1
定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to keeping a company going without necessarily managing it. Sometimes, it can extend to running a family and keeping it alive.
用法: E.g. 噢喔～原來Run一頭家 同Run一間公司差唔多。我們是彼此最重要的合作夥伴 (Oh... In fact, running a household is pretty much the same as running a company. We are each other's most important partners.)
同義詞: 經營; 運行
定義: A code-mixing term that Gen Z native Hong Kongers use to describe a romantic relationship where there are low levels of commitment except for sexual behaviour.
用法: E.g. A: 你同佢發展成點呀？ B: 冇呀，只係situationship。(A: How is your relationship going? B: No, we are just a situationship.)
同義詞: 狀態戀情
參考: https://www.hk01.com/談情說性/377560/約會新詞-situationship-已經-沉船-但不能隨便跳船