香港中英夾雜字典

定義: A code-mixing term that only upper class Hong Kongers know how to use to refer to a meal where people serve themselves the food because of the French origin of the word which makes it so hard to pronounce properly.

用法: E.g. A: 放假不如食buffet呀？B: 你指蒲飛？(A: What about eating buffet during holiday? B: You mean po-fei?)

同義詞: 蒲飛

參考: https://hk.news.yahoo.com/生日飯-餐廳-推介-推薦-生日餐廳-235652146.html

定義: A code-mixing term that refers to ‘out of budget’, which is used by working class Hong Kongers in business meetings.

用法: 做project management只睇兩樣。第一就係有冇outside個scope，第二就係有冇out bud。

定義: Originated from the Cantonese movie 'Night King' starring Dayo Wong (黃子華), this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to the Lai King MTR station.

用法: E.g. A: 今晚去唔去荔景？B: 好呀。不過荔景幾時變左Night King？！(A: Want to go to Lai King tonight? B: Sure. But when did Lai King become Night King?!)

同義詞: 夜王, 荔景

參考: https://www.hk01.com/電影/60330286/夜王-葵芳一角爆紅-港鐵葵芳站改名franchesca-仲有隱藏廣播

定義: A highly versatile code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to refer to repair, solve, adjust, improve or make something work again, especially in the IT sector.

用法: E.g. fix個bug幾日都仲未揾到個問題 (I've been fixing the bug for several days and still haven't found what the problem is.)

同義詞: 整; 修理; 解決

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3516188/page/32

定義: Often expressed as ‘老best’ meaning 'old best', this is a code-mixing term used by Gen Z native Hong Kongers to refer to a best friend that a person has known for a long time. (呢個好大部分時候係攞嚟應用自己啲friend呀樣表達自己個friend係好老友囉咁樣)

用法: E.g. 你哋睇下呢個係我老best。(Let me show all of you. This is my old best friend.)

同義詞: 睇下呢個係我個好朋友, 老友, old best friend

參考: https://mingpaomonthly.com/article/details/語文．書話/2025-02/1737624129007/老best、bestie有咩分別？%20（歐陽偉豪）

定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kong students use to refer to '手提電腦'.

用法: E.g. 老師，上堂可以比帶自己notebook嗎？

同義詞: 手提電腦

參考: http://www.patrickchu.net/uploads/9/0/5/3/9053324/2007_free_ppt.pdf

定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that native Hong Kongers use to strongly express promise in doing something when the other person does not believe in you. (批個頭比你當凳坐)

用法: E.g. If I don't return my money back to you by tomorrow, then I cut my head and let you sit on it as a chair!!!

同義詞: 批個頭比你當凳坐

參考: https://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?3,139574,139575

定義: A code-mixing term used by westernised Hong Kongers to refer to hitting a ball towards the ground forcefully in tennis, which not only feels good when defeating someone with such a gesture, but also it sort of gives the person a feeling of breaking something into pieces.

用法: E.g. 咁勁？！今次我要smash返你！(So powerful?! I'm going to smash you back!)

同義詞: 殺球

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3898753/page/7

定義: A code-mixing term used by entertainment judges as a neutral way of describing the state of something not being controlled rather than implying someone has gone wrong losing control of something.

用法: E.g. 我覺得你有時可能自視太高，你頭先出嚟時用聲同埋所有嘅野，你係完全out of control，直情係一個好似唔識唱歌嘅人 (I feel you may think too highly of yourself sometimes, like when you first came out and used your voice and all that, you were completely out of control, as if you were a person who didn't seem to know how to sing at all.)

同義詞: 失控

參考: https://www.stheadline.com/film-drama/3570761/魔音女團莊子璇失準隨時出局陳熙蕊安慰喬美莎獲激讚-高學歷背景曾創百萬帶貨額

定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to refer to being able to like and understand someone.

用法: E.g. 我覺得我同你click唔到。

同義詞: 相處融洽

參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/2736661/page/3