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定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers when they want to describe something as too broad, vague or not specific enough without sounding too judgmental.
用法: E.g. 啲ad永遠都寫得好general，你唔in過根本唔知人地要咩人。(The job ads are always written in such a general sense. You can never know what they are looking for unless you have been interviewed by them before.)
同義詞: 籠統
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/1789393/page/34
定義: A romanised code-mixing term that foreignised Hong Kongers use when they want to say ‘yes’ to someone.
用法: Hong Konger: Are you a gweilo? Foreigner: Hai.
同義詞: 係
定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to the occasion at the end of October where people celebrate by putting on scary costumes, which is more like a cosplay event or social party than something religious.
用法: E.g. 其實halloween只係一個occasion俾平時唔敢cos play 嘅人扮下嘢 俾小朋友學下social 真係無宗教意義同無任何evil嘅嘢 最evil 就係晒d糖好肥會爛牙 (In fact, Halloween is just an occasion for people who don't usually put on cosplay costumes to play around, as well as let children learn to social. There is really no religious meaning or anything that is evil. The most evil thing is getting fat and rotten teeth from eating too much candy.)
同義詞: 萬聖節
參考: https://www.threads.com/share/BAHNW6bYI0/
定義: (textspeak) Transliterated from ‘好多’ meaning ‘a lot’ or ‘many’, this is a Kongish code-mixing term used by local student Hong Kongers to complain about the excess of homework.
用法: E.g. Ho dor gong for ah! (好多功課呀！)
同義詞: 好多
參考: https://hklanguage.home.blog/2019/11/16/the-use-of-transliteration-in-kongish/
定義: (vulgar) A romanised code-mixing phrase used by Hong Kong expats to describe the feeling of being so f***ing full from eating too much.
用法: E.g. 呢到58蚊。但係呢到都可以十個人食喇。真係ho lun bao。(This is 58 bucks, but is enough for 10 people to eat. I'm really so f***ing full.)
同義詞: 好撚飽
參考: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2972264009780939
定義: A romanised code-mixing term used by Hong Kong expats to describe something as delicious or very yummy.
用法: E.g. If you want to say something is delicious in Cantonese, you need to say 'ho sik'. The Jyutping for this is hou2 sik6. The 'sick' needs to be a low sixth tone.
同義詞: 好食
參考: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wAqzV4KgPZA
定義: A romanised code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to a top student who scores high marks in school.
用法: E.g. You got straight A's for your exams? You must be a hok ba!
同義詞: 學霸
定義: With a literal meaning of 'very urgent faeces', this is an Englishised code-mixing phrase that is used by native Hong Kongers when one urgently needs to poop. He or she is just so desperate to go to the washroom that the sh*t may already be coming out of the a**hole.
用法: E.g. Hold gap see! Please excuse me for a minute!
同義詞: 好急屎
參考: https://www.facebook.com/100063638007113/posts/1372326404898613/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
定義: (textspeak) A Kongish code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers when one feels embarassed about something stupid that he has done but still wishes to admit it honestly. While the phrase is English-sounding with Holland being a western country and Ben being an English name, it is actually homophonous with '好撚笨柒' in Cantonese, which has the literal meaning of 'very f***ing stupid penis'.
用法: E.g. I forgot my wallet at home! I am Holland Ben 7!
同義詞: 好撚笨柒, Holland Bank Cheque
定義: A code-mixing term that a "Jayden Mami" likes to use to refer more specifically to a person's habit in keeping clean, rather than the broader sense of cleanliness and sanitary conditions that the Cantonese equivalent term "衛生" denotes.
用法: E.g. Jayden，你攞人啲嘢食之前有冇做好hygiene呀？(Jayden, did you have good hygiene before grabbing somebody else's food?)
同義詞: 衛生
參考: https://topick.hket.com/article/4112744/Jayden之亂｜KOL拍片諷刺「Jayden媽」偽ABC育兒法%E3%80%80揭爆紅現象時間線-港媽式教仔金句