香港中英夾雜字典

定義: A better sounding code-mixing term that is used in place of '室友'.

用法: E.g. 朋友：你有幾多個室友？ 你：你係話失友還是roommate?

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: Originated from Ming Dynasty where a husband does the housework for his wife for the latter half of the month, this is a Kongish code-mixing phrase that native Hong Kongers use when they want to retaliate against the wrongdoing of a person, which is like 'eye for an eye' in English.

用法: E.g. You do the first, I do the fifteenth. If you keep throwing trash in front of my door, then I will do the same to you too! E.g. You do new moon, I do full moon. E.g. You do Lunar New Year, I do Mid-Autumn Festival.

同義詞: 你做初一，我做十五

參考: https://www.weekendhk.com/weekspecial/你做初一-我做十五-英文-ctb072-jc-1368860/3/

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 that Hong Kongers often use instead of '炫耀', which sounds too formal to be used in conversation.  Also used as 'show qualie' sometimes.

用法: E.g. 唔好成日係到show off啦。知道你勁喇。E.g. 成日講野都夾雜英文。你喺到show qualie呀？

定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to a person's emotional state that can be driven by an atmosphere or a person.

用法: E.g. 女朋友講完句野搞到我無晒mood (My girlfriend said something which made me lose my mood.)

同義詞: 心情

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/294607/page/3

定義: A code-mixing term that is often misused by Fake ABC’s to mean 'jot down'.

用法: E.g. 老師，唔該等一等。我要ｄｒｏｐ　ｄｏｗｎ埋Ｄ　ｎｏｔｅｓ先擦黑板。

參考: https://www.hk01.com/開罐/128449/你是否-偽abc-chill-中文意思係咩-10個港人常用錯英文字

定義: A code-mixing phrase used by grassroots Hong Kongers when they want to express gratitude for something they have received, such as an email with an attachment. However, the working class Hong Kongers realise that this is probably not such a suitable term for them to use so they say 'Noted/Received with thanks'.

用法: E.g. Well-received with thanks.

同義詞: 收到

參考: https://graduate.ctgoodjobs.hk/article/35656/電郵技巧｜商用電郵｜職場英語-10個打工仔常犯的英文email錯誤-please-kindly-well-received-with-thanks-都係錯-內附正確寫法

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: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that native Hong Kongers use to describe someone who likes leeching off others. (菠羅雞 - bo1 lo4 gai1)

用法: E.g. That girl is such a pineapple chicken! She just comes every time for the benefits and does not share or contribute.

同義詞: 菠羅雞

參考: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/60017/

定義: A Kongish code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to tell someone that he or she must listen to them because they have much more life experience and wisdom.

用法: E.g. Listen to me. You are not old enough to go travelling by yourself. I have eaten salt more than you ate rice!

同義詞: 我食鹽多過你食米

參考: https://zolimacitymag.com/pop-cantonese-more-salt-than-rice-我食鹽多過你食米/