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定義: Transliterated from '玻璃心' meaning 'heart made of glass', this is a code-mixing phrase used by local student Hong Kongers to refer to someone who can be easily hurt and broken, just like as fragile as glass.
用法: E.g. He is very manly but he is actually a polly shum when it comes to love.
同義詞: 玻璃心
參考: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/things-to-do/cantonese-slang-you-need-to-know-right-now
定義: A Kongish code-mixing term that local Hong Kong students use to emphasize the zero mark they got in a test or exam, which they like to honour themselves with because not only a chicken egg has the shape of the zero number, but also it has become a friendly treat that they are used to eating all the time.
用法: E.g. Oh no! I got a zero chicken egg in my exam again!
同義詞: 零雞蛋
參考: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/零雞蛋
定義: (noun) Pronounced with the sixth tone in Cantonese, this is a code-mixing term used by local Hong Kong students to refer to canteen in a highly efficient manner.
用法: E.g. 淨係食過bu同city既can。(I have only eaten Baptist University's and City University's canteen.)
同義詞: canteen, 食堂
參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/404559/page/2
定義: (textspeak) Transliterated from ‘緊‘, this is a Kongish code-mixing term that is added to the end of verbs to denote the sense of ongoing, just like the ‘ing’ in English as in ‘doing’.
用法: E.g. Nei jo gun d meh ar? (你做緊d咩呀?) E.g. Ngo sik gun farn ah. (我食緊飯呀)
同義詞: 緊
參考: https://hklanguage.home.blog/tag/kongish/
定義: (textspeak) A Kongish code-mixing term meaning homework, which only Hong Kong local students can understand.
用法: E.g. Jo jor gong for mei ar? (做左功課未呀?) E.g. Nei mong gong for meh? (你忙功課咩?) E.g. Jo sai d gong for la! (做晒D功課喇!)
同義詞: 功課
參考: https://hklanguage.home.blog/2019/11/16/the-use-of-transliteration-in-kongish/
定義: A nicer-sounding phrase than '重複檢查' or '檢查兩次', which means to check again or check two times.
用法: E.g. 每次考試時記住double check份卷。
定義: A word that Hong Kong local students use to refer to a large piece of work, which is often done in group setting.
用法: E.g. 今學期你有咩group project呀?(課題)
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
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: Translated from the punning of ‘粟米肉粒飯’ (shuk mai yuk lup fan), this is a Kongish code-mixing term that refers to a rice dish with creamed corn and pork served in Hong Kong Cha Chaan Tang restaurants.
用法: E.g. Excuse me, may I have a ‘show me your love rice’?
同義詞: 粟米肉粒飯
參考: https://hklanguage.home.blog/2019/11/12/kongish-a-new-language-of-hong-kongers/
定義: A code-mixing term used by local Hong Kong students when they want to avoid sounding too unrealistic when giving an example to illustrate a point.
用法: E.g. Imagine 你嘅英文好差,但係入咗英文中學,考試嗰陣第一步係要將全部唔識嘅英文轉做中文睇 (Imagine your English were very poor, but you entered an English secondary school. Then you had to read all the English like you read Chinese during the exams.)
同義詞: 幻想