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定義: Often pronounced as ‘cummun’, this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers when they want to express how common something is without making it sound unpopular or nothing special.
用法: E.g. 做呢個行業好common架咋。(This occupation is so common!)同義詞: 普遍, 普通參考: https://www.instagram.com/p/C04Br91vuJT/ (使用手機版本)
定義: A code-mixing term that overseas educated Hong Kongers use to refer to '靚', which describes something as beautiful or good-looking.
用法: E.g. No, but seriously it’s really lang, you are the one who said hou ce right?參考: http://www.lingref.com/isb/4/039ISB4.PDF
定義: A code-mixing term used by local Hong Kong students to scold someone when they are prohibited from swearing in school. At other times, it is used as an onomatopoeia of the beeping sound of Octopus card readers in Hong Kong train service.
用法: E.g. Doot你咩？！搞污糟我件校服！(F*** you?! You ruined my school uniform!)
E.g. 好多人撘地鐵呀。快啲攞張八達通出黎doot部機入閘啦。(So many people taking the train. Take out your Octopus card quickly to doot the machine and enter the gate.)同義詞: F***, d*u, 嘟參考: https://cantowords.com/dictionary/v/114049/doot
定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers often use instead of '炫耀', which sounds too formal to be used in conversation. Also used as 'show qualie' sometimes.
用法: E.g. 唔好成日係到show off啦。知道你勁喇。E.g. 成日講野都夾雜英文。你喺到show qualie呀？
定義: A chique sounding code-mixing term used by upper class Hong Kongers to refer to going on a trip without quite knowing the particular destination.
用法: E.g. A: 今次假期又去邊到呀? B: 唔知呀，我鍾意去呢到travel吓，又去嗰到travel吓，總之去到邊就邊囉。(A: Where will you go this holiday? B: I don't know. I just like to travel here and travel there, just wherever I travel then where I go.)同義詞: 旅遊
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: A code-mixing term used by upper class Hong Kongers to describe going on a trip by oneself without sounding so alone or single.
用法: E.g. 放假時我比較鍾意solo trip，因為咩都唔洗煩。(I like going on solo trips during holiday because I don't need to bother with anything else.)同義詞: 單獨旅行, 獨旅參考: https://www.elle.com.hk/life/solo-trip
定義: (textspeak) Originated from the numbers 6 and 7 sounding similar to '碌柒' meaning 'a stick of dick', this is a Kongish code-mixing term used by local Hong Kong students to describe someone as very dumb and brainless, like a dickhead.
用法: E.g. 唔好成個6 7咁樣企喺到啦！(Don't be like a dickhead just standing there!)同義詞: 碌柒參考: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DR_ewS2k4Yy/ (使用手機版本)
定義: Often pronounced as 'vely gud', this is a code-mixing expression that grassroots Hong Kongers like to use when they cannot think of any other way to complement or give praise to something. 'Vely' (very) can also be used with other words such as 'delicious', even though delicious already denotes the meaning of excellence in food quality.
用法: E.g. 哇，今次做得好。Vely gud！
E.g. 哇，D牛扒真係vely delicious呀！
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