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香港中英夾雜字典

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job hunting

定義: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use to refer to the activity of finding a job, which definitely sounds more fun, exciting and challenging than the Cantonese equivalent terms '求職' and '找工作'. 用法: E.g. A: 你搵到工嗎? B: 冇呀,我仲喺到job hunting。同義詞: 求職, 找工作參考: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/1opsow8/job_hunting_socialising_in_hk/

foul

定義: This is a code-mixing term that refers to being eliminated in a competition, or being disqualified due to breaking the rules in a sports game. 用法: E.g. 小心比球證吹罰呀。再犯多次規就foul你出局。 E.g. 我第一round interview就比人foul左喇。真係慘慘豬。參考: http://www.cmi.hku.hk/Ref/Article/article02/01.html

smash

定義: A code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to hitting a ball towards the ground forcefully in tennis, which not only feels good when defeating someone with such a gesture, but also it sort of gives the person a feeling of breaking something into pieces. 用法: E.g. 咁勁?!今次我要smash返你!(So powerful?! I'm going to smash you back!)同義詞: 殺球參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3898753/page/7

server

定義: Pronounced as 'serfaah', this is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to refer to a computer server in IT. 用法: E.g. 個server整好未呀?冇理由down左咁耐架?同義詞: 服務器

lecture

定義: A code-mixing term that local Hong Kong university students love to use instead of '講座', which means a formal talk on a subject by a professor. 用法: E.g. 其實上lecture根本浪費時間。同義詞: 講座參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/475538/page/2

skiiing / snowboarding

定義: A pair of code-mixing terms that native Hong Kongers like to use to refer to the sport of gliding over snow because it is simply way too tiring having to tell the other person which one you are talking about if you just say ‘滑雪‘ in Cantonese, which has a literal meaning of 'glide snow'. 用法: E.g. 我好鍾意滑雪。B:不過請問係skiing定係snowboarding? (A: I really like gliding snow. B: But do you mean skiing or snowboarding?)同義詞: 滑雪參考: https://www.baby-kingdom.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=12744670

OT

定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to refer to working overtime. Sometimes, it is used as '冬OT' (winter OT), which means 'don't OT'. 用法: E.g. A:死喇,咁多野做。唔知今晚要OT到幾時呢?B:冬OT!同義詞: 加班參考: http://www.cmi.hku.hk/Ref/Article/article02/01.html

proper

定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to describe people with high standards of social, moral and ethical behaviour which covers everything from the way they look, dress, and talk. 用法: E.g. 我覺得呢個行業既人都係好proper。(I think everybody in this industry are so proper.)同義詞: 規矩, 正當, 得體參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/4012349/page/1

sharp

定義: 1. (adj) A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to describe a person being clever or quick to notice things. Sometimes, it is used as 'sharp醒'. 2. (adj) Used to describe someone's appearance as being too eye-catching. 用法: E.g. 哇,乜今日咁sharp醒呀?咁快做哂D野? E.g. 呢件衫D顏色太sharp喇。參考: http://www.cmi.hku.hk/Ref/Article/article02/01.html

clubbing

定義: A code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to going to bars and clubs because they find the Cantonese equivalent terms a lot more suitable for a mature audience. 用法: E.g. A: 去唔去clubbing呀?B: 你指係邊啲?A: 緊唔係夜總會啦!(A: Do you want to go clubbing? B: Which type are you referring to? A: Of course not nightclubs!)同義詞: 夜店,夜總會參考: https://jyutdictionary.com/dictionary/entry/夜總會