香港中英夾雜字典

定義: This is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to refer to '噱頭'.

用法: E.g. 你有沒有留意樓下那家coffee shop最近常做promotion，我覺得滿有gimmick

同義詞: 噱頭

參考: https://hk.news.yahoo.com/港人中英夾雜有規律-網友-太神奇-020000181.html

定義: Known as JM tone and pronounced with an extra 'r' in Armani, this is a code-mixing term used by Hong Kong celebrity Janice Man to refer to the Italian fashion designer and brand.

用法: E.g.「嚟到GoRgio ARmaRni(Giorgio Armani)嘅show嘅現場…」馬米高聽到一臉疑惑︰「Hello Girl！你去咗冒牌現場啊？ Giorgio Arrr讀到呢度都啱，但係咪ar-MARNI？冇R喎！」(Janice Man: "Arriving at the live show of Giorgio ArmaRni..." Michael Ma heard and suspected: "Hello Girl! Did you go to the fake brand's live show? Giorgio Arrr is pronounced correctly, but is it ar-MARNI? There is no R there!)

同義詞: 喬治·亞曼尼, Giorgio Armani

參考: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVyay3rgqtf/?igsh=MWU0bGlyajBnM3B5OQ== (使用手機版本)

定義: An Englishised code-mixing phrase that refers to someone who disappeared for a long time and no one knows where they went.

用法: E.g. I will be blacklisting this guy who promised to attend the conference but went scuba diving!

同義詞: 潛水

定義: A code-mixing term used by grassroots class Hong Kongers to refer to how thoroughly cooked a steak is, which is equivalent to ‘well done’ in native English.

用法: E.g. 個鬼佬轉另轉頭問我: whatxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? 我好自豪 充滿自信 大大聲答: GOOD JOB!! 個鬼佬就呆哂 唔明我無啦啦做乜講GOOD JOB咁 女友見到 即刻幫我答:WELL DONE (The western waiter then asked me: whatxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx? I was proud and confident and answered loudly: GOOD JOB! The western waiter was speechless and didn't understand why I said good job. When my girlfriend saw this, she immediately helped me answer: WELL DONE)

同義詞: 全熟

參考: https://amp.lihkg.com/thread/561255/page/1

定義: A code-mixing term used by Hong Kong local students to refer to the quality of being rough or even unkind, in addition to being strict in following rules or standards.

用法: E.g. 個professor好charm啊，但係有少少harsh... (The professor is very charming, but is a little harsh.)

同義詞: 嚴格; 嚴厲

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/86453/page/4

定義: (vulgar) Originated from LIHKG due to swear word filters, this is a code-mixing term used to refer to the worst possible circumstance that can ever happen to someone, as the tones of 'hihi' sound very similar to '仆街' in Cantonese, which means 'to trip on the street' or 'to die' as a metaphor.

用法: E.g. 香港而家好似喺平行時空咁樣。樓價升，租金升。大部份嘅生意行業跌到hi hi (Hong Kong seems to be in parallel universe nowadays. Property prices rise, rents rise. Most of the business industries went completely broke.)

同義詞: 仆街

參考: https://www.threads.com/share/BBg_BfSN0N/

定義: A code-mixing term used to refer to holding something physically (揸), but with the meaning of waiting for the return of something as well.

用法: E.g. Hold住個電話先。 E.g. 個project兒家hold住左，因為要同個客傾返好先。

同義詞: 揸

參考: https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/tc/item/cuhk-321644

定義: A tag-switching phrase often used by Native Hong Kongers for clarifying on matters. However, it can sometimes be overused by Fake ABC's to strike a western impression on others.

用法: E.g. 份project未搞掂呀。I mean，我岩岩做完要check吓先。 E.g. 港女：你應該食少D野。I mean，你應該減吓肥至岩。 E.g. 香港人：你講咩話？偽ABC：I mean，well... I mean，我覺得你身材唔係好fit囉I mean。

參考: https://www.academia.edu/8666953/Common_usage_of_code-mixing_among_trilingual_Hong_Kongers

定義: A code-mixing phrase that overseas educated Hong Kongers use when they want to express their well-educated guess or opinion on a subject matter without sounding so formal and bookish.

用法: E.g. 呢個program我覺得in general係幾學到野。(I think I can really learn from this program in general.)

同義詞: 一般而言

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3990504/page/1

定義: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers in the IT sector like to use to refer to the local environment of a computer.

用法: E.g. 你要喺local試吓run個program，然後再upload上去個server到試。

同義詞: 本地