香港中英夾雜字典

定義: A code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers when they want to show how pleased they are towards someone’s achievements, but want to sound less show-off or exaggerated about their feeling.

用法: E.g. 你考試咁高分，我好proud of你呀。(You scored so high in the exam. I am so proud of you.)

同義詞: 驕傲，自豪

參考: https://www.threads.com/@grace_interest_english/post/DDthgzMyHsU

定義: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers often use to refer to changing something in order to improve or make it new again, such as a website.

用法: E.g. 個website做revamp要幾耐？

同義詞: 翻新

定義: A more modern and happy-sounding code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers use to refer to period at the end of a week where they like to enjoy it like a real holiday.

用法: E.g. 你哋會唔會weekend 兩日一夜去日本？(Would you go to Japan for two days and one night on the weekend?)

同義詞: 週末

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3815081/page/1

定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to express frustration or distress when one encounters a problem.

用法: E.g. Ding! I missed the bus! (頂) E.g. Ding your lungs! How dare you talk to me like this? (頂你個肺)

參考: https://ovolohotels.com/ovolo/blog/7-cantonese-slangs-guaranteed-to-impress-a-local/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CDing!&text=Definition%3A%20It's%20simply%20another%20way,and%20shout%2C%20%E2%80%9CDING!%E2%80%9D

定義: Pronounced as 'shalup', this is a code-mixing term used to tell somebody to shut up immediately.

用法: E.g. 好鬼嘈呀！快D shalup啦！ E.g. 同學：Shalup！老師就快到喇！

同義詞: 收聲

定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers as a more technical and corporate way of referring to the number of employees in a company because '人數' sounds too everyday in Cantonese like when getting enough people to play Mahjong together.

用法: E.g. 大家公司最近咩環境 有冇freeze headcount? (How is everybody's company doing recently? Any company is freezing headcount?)

同義詞: 人數

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3674159/page/1

定義: A code-mixing term that local Hong Kongers use to refer to a small wireless unit that is plugged into a computer’s USB port for receiving signals for a keyboard or mouse.

用法: E.g. 有冇見過我個receiver? 我好似唔見左。

同義詞: 接收器

定義: A code-mixing term that real ABC's like to use to show how easygoing they can be.

用法: E.g. Hey bro！不如一齊食飯啦？ E.g. Hey bro！放工一齊打波呀？

同義詞: 兄弟

定義: A highly efficient code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use when they want to do a short summary of what happened in a period of time without sounding so repetitive, old school and verbose as '概括重述' denotes.

用法: E.g. 不如我地一齊recap一下今個week做左咩？(What about doing a recap of what we did this week?)

同義詞: 概括重述

參考: https://ezone.hk/article/20052634/香港職場中英夾雜用語-內地網民舉30個例子-表示識粵語都無法理解

定義: (adj) A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to describe something that is very unadvanced in technology.  There is a famous quote that goes "High Tech揩野，Low Tech撈野", which describes the volatility of high-tech products as opposed to low-tech products that have a larger market despite high competition. '撈' refers to '有得撈', which means you can earn a living.

用法: E.g. 今時今日唔可以再咁low tech架喇。快D買返部智能手機啦。

參考: https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/pure-data/pub/201902353/201902353_1.pdf