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香港中英夾雜字典

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give you some color see see

定義: A euphemistic way of saying to somebody that you want to teach them a lesson or show them what you've got. (比D顏色你睇) 用法: E.g. 咁寸?! Let me give you some color see see!同義詞: 比D顏色你睇

native

定義: A code-mixing term that refers to someone who was born or grew up in a particular country, which Hong Kongers find it a lot more convenient to use than the Cantonese equivalent words because it requires much less linguistic effort. 用法: E.g. 你係唔係native speaker黎架?(講本國語既人) E.g. 你D英文係咪native架?(純正本土口音)參考: https://www.studocu.com/hk/document/city-university-of-hong-kong/world-englishes/lecture-3-city-university-of-hong-kongen5714-world-englishes-and-the-social-context-of/20063922

Sure

定義: A code-mixing term that real ABC's like to use to show that they are always glad to do a favour for someone. 用法: E.g. Sure!No problem!拜托喺我身上啦。 E.g. Sure!我同你去Starbucks買杯咖啡啦。 E.g. Sure!我幫你比住錢先啦。

bra

定義: A more subtle way for Hong Kongers to refer to the undergarment worn by women, as the Cantonese equivalent term '胸圍' may sound too explicit and embarrassing in mentioning the female's body part. 用法: E.g. 哎呀,我今日唔記得左載bra添。參考: https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/pure-data/pub/201902353/201902353_1.pdf

hold

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

vely good

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!

double confirm

定義: Even though the word 'double' may seem redundant, this is a code-mixing expression that is often used in the workplaces of Hong Kong when you want to verify something. 用法: E.g. 可唔可以double confirm吓個schedule呀? E.g. 唔該幫我double confirm吓每一個detail呀。參考: https://smelab.com.hk/職場英語-double-confirm-reconfirm/

madam

定義: The Hong Kong way of referring to a female police officer (女警官). 用法: E.g. 女警:Target出現。全世界出動!下屬:Yes, Madam!同義詞: 女警官參考: https://www.gushiciku.cn/dl/0pydp/zh-hk

call

定義: This is an lot more linguistically efficient way of saying the Cantonese equivalent '打電話', which has 3 long syllables. 用法: E.g. 可以兒家call你嗎? E.g. 我尋日call爆你機都唔聽。你去左邊呀?參考: https://www.gushiciku.cn/dl/0pydp/zh-hk

lift

定義: Pronounced as 'leeb' (long vowel), this is an a lot more linguistically efficient way of referring to '升降機' in Cantonese. 用法: E.g. 等陣呀。我兒家搭緊lift上黎。參考: https://holiday.presslogic.com/article/224449/港式-廣東話-中英夾雜-口語-香港人-搭lift-食lunch