香港中英夾雜字典

定義: (verb) A code-mixing term meaning to continue doing or retain control of something.

用法: E.g. 日日keep fit先會健康架。 E.g. 你D身材keep得幾好喎。 E.g. 我地以後keep contact啦。 E.g. 不如keep in touch好唔好？

同義詞: 保持

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

定義: A code-mixing term that working class Hong Kongers use to refer to putting information into a computer. (載入)

用法: E.g. 點解個website load咁耐都load唔到架？Load得咁慢真係GG喇。

同義詞: 載入

定義: A code-mixing word that working class Hong Kongers love to use to refer to '資料庫' in the IT sector. Also see 'database'.

用法: E.g. 連得到個db未? 定係connect唔到呢?

同義詞: 資料庫

定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to describe someone who is useless and is a waste of money to raise him or her up. (食濕米 or 食塞米)

用法: E.g. You cannot get anything done at all today? Do you eat wet rice? (你係咪食塞米?)

同義詞: 食濕米, 食塞米

參考: https://shyyp.net/hant/phrase/%E9%A3%9F%E5%A1%9E%E7%B1%B3

定義: (textspeak) A Kongish code-mixing term that is derived from '陣間', which means a while later.

用法: E.g. Zhen garn lunch go ng go sing K?

同義詞: 陣間

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: A more neutral-sounding term that native Hong Kongers use to refer to '購物' or '買野', which signify the commitment to buying things.

用法: E.g. 女朋友：我地聽日去商場啦。男朋友：吓？又買野？！女朋友：唔係呀。去shopping咋嘛。 E.g. 女朋友：我地聽日去shopping啦。男朋友：又買野？！女朋友：去window shopping咋嘛。

參考: https://www.academia.edu/1177618/Cantonese_English_code_switching_research_in_Hong_Kong_A_survey_of_recent_research

定義: A code-mixing term used by upper class Hong Kongers to refer to the famous French luxury brand ‘Louis Vuitton’. However, the grassroots class Hong Kongers may pronounce it as ‘eh-lo-wee’.

用法: Ａ：你最想買邊隻手袋呀？Ｂ：唔洗問緊係ＬＶ啦。(A: Which handbag do you want to buy? B: No need to ask. Must be LV.)

同義詞: Louis Vuitton

參考: https://amp.lihkg.com/thread/3065984/page/1

定義: A code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to refer to working overtime. Sometimes, it is used as '冬OT' (winter OT), which means 'don't OT'.

用法: E.g. Ａ：死喇，咁多野做。唔知今晚要OT到幾時呢？Ｂ：冬ＯＴ！

同義詞: 加班

參考: http://www.cmi.hku.hk/Ref/Article/article02/01.html

定義: (verb) A code-mixing term that local Hong Kongers like to use to refer to paper being stuck in a printer.

用法: E.g. 個printer又jam紙？唔係掛？

同義詞: 卡住紙

參考: https://www.threads.net/@hongtonese/post/C8zlfwZytLZ

定義: A code-mixing term that native Hong Kongers use to describe someone or something as dull and boring such as having no relationship, which definitely has nothing to do with 'dry dating' in native English.

用法: E.g. 我近排冇拖拍好dry呀。(I recently haven't been dating, so dry!) E.g. 唔好成日自己一個人咁dry啦。(Don't be always by yourself, so dry!)

同義詞: 沒新鮮感，很無聊，枯燥乏味

參考: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtwE7IA18CY&t=50s