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Definition: A nicer-sounding phrase than '重複檢查' or '檢查兩次', which means to check again or check two times.
Usage: E.g. 每次考試時記住double check份卷。
Definition: A code-mixing term used by working class Hong Kongers as a more technical and corporate way of referring to the number of employees in a company because '人數' sounds too everyday in Cantonese like when getting enough people to play Mahjong together.
Usage: E.g. 大家公司最近咩環境 有冇freeze headcount? (How is everybody's company doing recently? Any company is freezing headcount?)
Synonym: 人數
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/3674159/page/1
Definition: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to refer to something that is so obvious that there is no need to ask anyone about it, especially after finding out the wrong of somebody. 'Ah Gui' is a name that originated from an infamous official (李世桂) in the Qing Dynasty.
Usage: E.g. It must be him who let out the secrets! No need to ask Ah Gui!
Synonym: 唔洗問阿貴
Reference: https://www.kamadelivery.com/blog/posts/香港10大俗語-地道文化背景大解構/
Definition: A code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers when they want to send somebody away formally and politely, even though at times they may not be taking the other person seriously.
Usage: E.g. *打斷* 我地傾左咁耐，不如就喺到dismiss啦? (*interrupt* We have been talking for so long. What about dismiss here?)
Synonym: 解散
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/2842244/page/13
Definition: 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.
Usage: 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!)
Synonym: 沒新鮮感，很無聊，枯燥乏味
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtwE7IA18CY&t=50s
Definition: A more neutral-sounding code-mixing term that Hong Kongers use to describe someone's personality as humorous, especially when they are not sure whether to give praise to someone.
Usage: E.g. 佢係mix黎既，講野個tone都幾溫柔，然後性格都幾funny吓。
Synonym: 搞笑
Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uik5GWvXiLA&t=210s
Definition: A romanised code-mixing phrase that foreigners use to utter the phrase 'thank you' in Cantonese when they receive a red packet during Chinese New Year.
Usage: E.g. Dor jeh! Gung hei fat choi!
Synonym: 多謝
Definition: This is a code-mixing term that Hong Kongers like to use instead of '冷場' (laang5 ceong4), which literally translates to 'cold scene'.
Usage: E.g. 考口試最緊要唔好dead air。
Synonym: 冷場
Reference: https://www.gotrip.hk/生活/中英夾雜-港式廣東話-gt12-772959/
Definition: A code-mixing term used by entertainment judges to describe a performance as enjoyable to watch without judging the entertainment value itself.
Usage: 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.)
Synonym: 有娛樂性
Reference: https://www.nmplus.hk/entertainment/魔音女團-穎喬-陳潔靈-1637287/
Definition: A code-mixing term that local Hong Kong university students love to use instead of '講座', which means a formal talk on a subject by a professor.
Usage: E.g. 其實上lecture根本浪費時間。
Synonym: 講座
Reference: https://lihkg.com/thread/475538/page/2