香港中英夾雜字典

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: This is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to refer to '噱頭'.

用法: E.g. 你有沒有留意樓下那家coffee shop最近常做promotion，我覺得滿有gimmick

同義詞: 噱頭

參考: https://hk.news.yahoo.com/港人中英夾雜有規律-網友-太神奇-020000181.html

定義: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to a restaurant located inside a school or company. However, it is worth noting that the origin of the word is from Europe and should not to be confused with ‘can-ting’ or ‘can-teng’ in Mandarin or Cantonese (餐廳), which start with the ‘ts’ sound instead of ‘k’ sound in ‘can’.

用法: E.g. 今日好多人呀！快啲落canteen霸位啦！(There are so many people today! Let's go to the canteen to hog the seats first!)

同義詞: 飯堂; 食堂 ; 餐廳

參考: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSKkZbOEqPJ/ (使用手機版本)

定義: A shortened term for 'long distance' meaning to have a long distance relationship with someone.

用法: E.g. 我plan左去working holiday。到陣時要同男朋友long d喇。

同義詞: 遠距離戀愛; 異地戀

參考: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uik5GWvXiLA&t=210s

定義: Short for 'job description', this is a code-mixing term that Hong Kong HR departments like to use to refer to the piece of text that describes the job nature and responsibilities of a position in a company, which may be long or short depending on how much they want an applicant to know about the job.

用法: E.g. 又話會send份JD比我睇？你send左去邊度？(I thought you were going to send me the JD to have a look? Where did you send it to?)

同義詞: 工作內容

參考: https://english.cool/job-description/

定義: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers to illustrate the distance between two parties in terms of their communication, which is often due to their difference in job positions or departments in a company. Sometimes, it may be caused by forgeting to say "double confirm", which is a common phrase used by Hong Kongers at workplace to really make sure that certain information is correct.

用法: E.g. 其實呢啲communication gap 大家可以做好D減少誤會，寫多兩句confirm is better。(As for these communication gaps, it is better for us all to try and minimise misunderstandings by saying 'confirm' more.)

同義詞: 溝通差距

參考: https://www.threads.com/@purpzc/post/C-l0fNJyiZM?hl=en

定義: 1. (adj). To describe a hectic state where you are so busy that you feel like you cannot breathe. 2. (verb). An Englishised code-mixing term that refers to exhausting oneself in order to get work done in a short period of time, which is usually brought on by demanding customers or people of high authority.

用法: E.g. 今日返工真係好chur呀。(adj) E.g. 哇，呢個客洗唔洗chur到咁盡呀？比條生路人地行吓好嗎？(verb)

參考: https://zolimacitymag.com/pop-cantonese-hea-chok-chur/

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 code-mixing term used by entertainment judges to describe a performance as enjoyable to watch without judging the entertainment value itself.

用法: E.g. 一開始覺得啲vocal好似嗌緊交，但又好 Entertaining (At first it felt like the vocals were arguing, but was very entertaining at the same time.)

同義詞: 有娛樂性

參考: https://www.nmplus.hk/entertainment/魔音女團-穎喬-陳潔靈-1637287/

定義: (textspeak) Transliterated from ‘緊‘, this is a Kongish code-mixing term that is added to the end of verbs to denote the sense of ongoing, just like the ‘ing’ in English as in ‘doing’.

用法: E.g. Nei jo gun d meh ar? （你做緊d咩呀？） E.g. Ngo sik gun farn ah. (我食緊飯呀）

同義詞: 緊

參考: https://hklanguage.home.blog/tag/kongish/