香港中英夾雜字典

定義: A romanised code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to a top student who scores high marks in school.

用法: E.g. You got straight A's for your exams? You must be a hok ba!

同義詞: 學霸

參考: https://www.youngpostclub.com/yp/discover/lifestyle/article/3147729/sup-sup-sui-start-new-school-year-these-cantonese-slang

定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers when they want to ask for a deeper analytical understanding of something.

用法: E.g. 你睇完本書有咩insight? (What insights do you have after reading the book?)

同義詞: 見解; 睇法

參考: https://www.lib.eduhk.hk/pure-data/pub/202301935/202301935_1.pdf

定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to refer to the school that a person had graduated from. However, working class and grassroots Hong Kongers may know this term but not use it because it sounds too Latin than English. Hence, they find ‘mother school’ is more sensible and practical to use.

用法: E.g. 你既alma mater係邊間學校？

同義詞: 母校, mother school

參考: https://youtube.com/shorts/Br8CWgYQNak?si=aFaIMvdv2YSnCxvh

定義: A code-mixing term that westernised Hong Kongers often use when they are excited to hear about another person's experience(s) in something, as the term is also countable as opposed to the Cantonese equivalent term.

用法: E.g. 可以同大家share吓你既travelling experiences嗎? (Could you share your travelling experiences with all of us?)

同義詞: 經驗

參考: https://urbanpixxels.com/best-things-to-do-in-hong-kong/

定義: This is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers like to use instead of '跳過'.

用法: E.g. 條題目好難。skip左先啦。

同義詞: 跳過

參考: https://www.gotrip.hk/生活/中英夾雜-港式廣東話-gt12-772959/

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: Originated from the olden days where the upper class loved to wear old sheepskin of high quality, this is a Kongish code-mixing term used by Hong Kongers to describe someone who has low social status and tries to mimick the upper class by wearing cheap quality clothing that matches the appearance of expensive clothing. ie. The white colour and look of fresh carrot skin resembles the look of old sheepskin.

用法: E.g. You think you are so high class? What kind of fresh carrot skin are you?

同義詞: 新鮮蘿蔔皮

參考: https://voltra.academy/blog/canton2

定義: (textspeak) A Kongish code-mixing phrase used by local student Hong Kongers to tell somebody to shut the f*** up.

用法: E.g. Stop blowing water! Sau pei la! (Quit bragging! Shut up!)

同義詞: 收皮

參考: https://thehoneycombers.com/hong-kong/hong-kong-slang-urban-dictionary/

定義: A code-mixing phrase used by Hong Kong KOL Janice (janicewanwan) who is known for playing "Jayden’s mother" to emphasize the correctness of her teachings as a typical modern mom, which she says must be correct.

用法: E.g. 中英夾雜有助 children 盡快 pick up English。Mommy told you 嘅一定是 correct 的. (Chinese-English code-mixing aids children in picking up English more quickly. Whatever Mommy told you must be correct.)

同義詞: 媽媽告訴你

參考: https://www.hk01.com/即時娛樂/60339385/jayden之亂-中英夾雜潮文橫掃社交平台-諷刺港媽真實育兒方式?utm_campaign=native&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=01webshare#google_vignette

定義: A code-mixing phrase that is often mistaken as grammatically incorrect due to the word 'very' being considered redundant, as 'delicious' already denotes the meaning of very yummy. However, it originates from '好好味' in Cantonese, which means 'very very tasty'.

用法: E.g. 哇，Ｄ野食真係very delicious呀。

同義詞: 好好味