香港中英夾雜字典

定義: A code-mixing term that refers to pulling a face that looks pretentious in order to look cool.

用法: E.g. 林峯：你睇吓我個樣夠唔夠chok？！

參考: https://zolimacitymag.com/pop-cantonese-hea-chok-chur/

定義: Purportedly to have come from online competitive gaming where a player brings his team to victory, this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to helping and leading someone to achieve something. At times, it can also refer to being able to dress effectively which covers everything from head to toe, including hair.

用法: E.g. 日系唔只著衫 要化埋妝同髮型同襯埋accessories 要full gear先會carry得到 (Japanese fashion isn't just about wearing clothes. You have to put on make-up, have a certain hairstyle as well as matching accessories. You must have full gear in order to carry this fashion.)

同義詞: 駕馭

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/475055/page/9

定義: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use to recommend a candidate for a vacant position.

用法: E.g. 如果你識到朋友做呢行，可以refer佢比我地嗎？

同義詞: 推薦, 介紹

參考: https://goop.ai/topic/2r3f/尋英文補習教學partner

定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to someone who has a habit of doing sports. However, it is also often used to describe someone or something as looking sporty.

用法: E.g. 你覺得佢邊套最好睇。 第3套望落幾sporty幾健康 (Which one do you think is the best looking? The third one looks quite sporty and healthy.)

同義詞: 運動型

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/2725538/page/1

定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to a subject matter that is less socially loaded, people-oriented or even gossipy.

用法: E.g. 成日都講人是非，可唔可以轉topic？(The conversation is always gossiping about others. Can we change the topic?)

同義詞: 話題

參考: https://spencerlam.hk/blog/2022/02/01/group-discussion技巧/

定義: A code-mixing phrase that even young and senior local Hong Kong students like to use to refer to duplicating information in the digital format because they were just never used to Chinese Windows.

用法: E.g. Ａ：搵AI gen成編文出黎，再copy and paste落自己份功課到咪得囉。Ｂ：喂，你唔好教壞我喎？！(A: Just get the AI to generate some essay, then copy and paste it into your homework. Done! B: Hey, don't teach me a wrong habit!)

同義詞: 複製與貼上

參考: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/香港語文

定義: Originated from a limerick in the 1990's, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to mock overeating by exaggerating that a person's buttocks will be as big as a pineapple.

用法: E.g. One More Two More，屎忽大個菠蘿，菠蘿似粒的，好似朱古力，食咗會生跡，屙屎一滴滴，以後唔敢食。(One more, two more, your buttocks will be bigger than a pineapple; pineapples look like little pellets, very much like chocolate; if you eat too much, you'll grow some spots; then your poop will come out drop by drop, and you won't dare eat it anymore.)

同義詞: 再多一個、再多兩個

參考: https://www.hk01.com/開罐/830396/i-don-t-know-食鬆糕下句-香港人20首小學雞打油詩-你識幾多首?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=01appshare

定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to someone who is silly and stupid. ie. An imbecile.

用法: E.g. 唔好成日咁KAI喺到亂咁嗌啦！你係低能定係白痴架？！ E.g. Don't be so kai yelling all the time! Are you low b or an idiot?

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: A romanised Cantonese phrase used by foreigners to bargain in a wet market, in order to get a bigger deal or low price. A 'la' is also usually added at the end for emphasis.

用法: E.g. This is fifty dollars? Peng di la!

同義詞: 平D

參考: https://www.timeout.com/hong-kong/travel/basic-cantonese-phrases-every-traveller-to-hong-kong-needs-to-know