香港中英夾雜字典

定義: Derived from '寸' in Cantonese, this is a code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe someone who is cocky or arrogant.

用法: E.g. 知道你叻喇！不過洗唔洗咁inch呀？（in廚)

同義詞: 寸

參考: https://www.hk01.com/熱爆話題/159516/konglish-港式英語鬧爆疑似第三者-網民-香港人先會明嘅英文

定義: A tag-switching phrase that is often overused by Fake ABC's in Hong Kong.

用法: E.g. I can't believe it！呢隻牌子你唔係未聽過嗎？ E.g. Oh my God! 你唔係未去過呢間餐廳嘛？I can't believe it!

同義詞: 我唔相信

參考: https://topick.hket.com/article/555250/偽ABC扮唔識中文%20網民揶揄造作

定義: An irreplaceable code-mixing term meaning to deliver a speech, as saying the Cantonese equivalent term '匯報' would sound too old school and non-colloquial.

用法: E.g. 你幾時要present呀？ E.g. 今次份assignment難唔難present呀？

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

定義: Purportedly to have been a typo, this is a code-mixing term used by Hong Kong actress singer Shiga Lin to tell someone to rest in peace.

用法: E.g. Fast & Furious has always been one of my favourite movies. A great actor, may Paul Walker Rest in Piece.

同義詞: 安息

參考: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5bBdbn4A8

定義: A euphemistic way of refering to the end of something, as saying something is at a final stage is considered bad luck in Cantonese sometimes.

用法: E.g. 唔知佢end up會做D咩呢? E.g. 上次個project end up成點呀? E.g. 佢上個暑假end up左去台灣。

定義: A more polite way of telling somebody to shut up or '收皮' in Cantonese, which means to pack their things up and leave. (Also see 'collect skin')

用法: E.g. Off啦你，成日咁多野講。E.g. Off啦你，成日搞搞陣冇幫襯。

參考: https://zolimacitymag.com/pop-cantonese-收皮-collect-skin/

定義: A Kongish code-mixing phrase that local Hong Kongers use to refer to something that has just happened.

用法: E.g. My frd arm arm told me kui find gun ppl. E.g. Ngo arm arm sik jor farn. (我啱啱食左飯。）

同義詞: 啱啱

參考: https://www.hk01.com/開罐/283411/大學生打字用火星文-10句港式英文拼音大挑戰-測試你識幾多

定義: Derived from the idiom '傾國傾城', this is a Kongish code-mixing phrase used to describe women that are so devastatingly beautiful that they can make a country or city fall.

用法: E.g. The girls in this club are so fall country fall city!

同義詞: 傾國傾城

定義: (textspeak) A Kongish codemixing term that refers to a person who has never been in a relationship before. I.e. Available = 0.

用法: E.g. Nei dou year 4 lah, ng hai lum ju a0 grad har wah. （你都Year 4啦，唔係諗住A0 grad吓話。）

參考: https://www.hk01.com/article/283411?utm_source=01appshare&utm_medium=referral

定義: Pronounced as 'tee-suu', this is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers have grown up with and got used to instead of the equivalent term in Cantonese.

用法: E.g. 請問有冇tissue呀？。E.g. 唔該比張tissue黎呀，唔該。

同義詞: 紙巾