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Definition: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to refer to making someone happy, satisfied and giving them pleasure, which is really not an easy task for anyone to do, but at least it doesn't always mean to win someone's favour by flattery like '取悦' in Cantonese.
Usage: E.g. 宣萱自揭離開無綫原因：原來可能要刷鞋，要please一啲你唔想please嘅人，咁我問自己得唔得？唔得。(Jessica Hester Hsuan reveals the reason for leaving TVB: It turns out that you may have to make up to people, to please those who you don't want to please, so I ask myself can I? No.)Synonym: 使滿意, 開心; 取悦Reference: https://hk.on.cc/hk/bkn/cnt/entertainment/20260202/bkn-20260202190138911-0202_00862_001.html
Definition: A code-mixing term that is often used instead of '取錄'.
Usage: E.g. 家人：邊間大學比左offer你呀？ 你：仲未有offer呀。唔知幾時呢？Synonym: 取錄
Definition: A code-mixing term that is used when you want to avoid describing someone as being '衰' or not nice.
Usage: E.g. 男仔：喂，我覺得你咁樣講野好衰呀。女朋友：你話我衰？！
E.g. 男仔：喂，我覺得你咁樣講野好mean呀。女朋友：講得岩。我有時講野係mean左D，不過唔至於係衰。
Definition: A code-mixing term that Hong Kong teachers love to use to imply to students that there is some standard to adhere to or duty to be taken for the task given to them, rather than something that requires much effort as the Cantonese phrase ‘功課‘ denotes.
Usage: E.g. 記住assignment要自己做，唔好抄人地或用AI。(Remember that you must do the assignment by yourself, and not copy others or use AI.)Synonym: 功課Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/1883876/page/1
Definition: Originated from ‘gg’ meaning ‘game over' and often transliterated as the loan word ‘豬‘ meaning pig, this is a code-mixing term that local Hong Kong students use to describe situations where they have lost or think they already lost. Even though ‘豬‘ has a similar sound as 'g', this is not to be mistaken as a mispronunication as a pig represents stupidity in Cantonese and fits the context and meaning entirely. Also said to have originated from Taiwanese.
Usage: E.g. 今次對手咁勁，真係豬喇喎。(Our opponents are so powerful this time, it's really game over.)
E.g. 今次考試豬左。(My exam results is game over.)Synonym: 豬, 完了，GGReference: https://lihkg.com/thread/3388417/page/1
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase that refers to something that is like an eyesore to oneself because he or she cannot withstand it anymore.
Usage: E.g. 你地做成日都打爛野。我真係no eye see喇。（冇眼睇）Synonym: 冇眼睇Reference: https://hklanguage.home.blog/tag/kongish/
Definition: An irreplaceable code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to refer to the kind of love relationship that one can get while being a teenager or kid.
Usage: E.g. 咁細個就談戀愛？Puppy love呀？
E.g. 唔好成日掛住puppy love啦。讀好D書先啦。Reference: https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/tc/item/cuhk-321644
Definition: A romanised code-mixing term that is used by Fake ABC's in Hong Kong to refer to '核突', which refers to something that is aesthetically unpleasant or ugly.
Usage: E.g. 港女：Im so broke so I went into a random updup maiseen place eat din alone but then I realize the place is too dirty and updup and ppl ard me dou ho dirty and wuddud...Synonym: 核突Reference: https://topick.hket.com/article/2254771/wuddud＝核突%E3%80%80港女「流利」港式英語投訴米線店考起網民
Definition: A shortened code-mixing term that refers to 'semester' and can hardly be replaced '學期'.
Usage: E.g. 大學生：唔知今個sem考成點呢？
你：份project幾時交呀？同學：sem尾先至交呀。Synonym: 學期
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