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定義: A code-mixing term used by overseas educated Hong Kongers to refer to the school that a person had graduated from. However, working class and grassroots Hong Kongers may know this term but not use it because it sounds too Latin than English. Hence, they find ‘mother school’ is more sensible and practical to use.
用法: E.g. 你既alma mater係邊間學校?同義詞: 母校, mother school參考: https://youtube.com/shorts/Br8CWgYQNak?si=aFaIMvdv2YSnCxvh
定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to refer to forming inner circles and having decisions made by its members.
用法: E.g. You think they are really inviting a bid? They are just wai wai wai!同義詞: 圍威喂參考: https://words.hk/zidin/圍威喂
定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to slacking off at work.
用法: E.g. Don't be such a snake king all the time! Get some work done!同義詞: 蛇王
定義: Known as Kongish, this is a code-mixing phrase used by native Hong Kongers to refer to a man who relies on his wife or girlfriend to sustain a living.
用法: E.g. Be a real man and stop eating soft rice!同義詞: 食軟飯
定義: Known as Kongish, this is a common code-mixing slang term used by native Hong Kongers to refer to a western male person, which is transliterated from '鬼佬', meaning 'ghost man'.
用法: E.g. Try talking to the gweilo to practice your English!同義詞: 鬼佬參考: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gweilo
定義: A code-mixing phrase that even young and senior local Hong Kong students like to use to refer to duplicating information in the digital format because they were just never used to Chinese Windows.
用法: E.g. A:搵AI gen成編文出黎,再copy and paste落自己份功課到咪得囉。B:喂,你唔好教壞我喎?!(A: Just get the AI to generate some essay, then copy and paste it into your homework. Done! B: Hey, don't teach me a wrong habit!)同義詞: 複製與貼上參考: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hk/香港語文
定義: A classy code-mixing term used by upper class Hong Kongers to refer to arranging something for use at a later time, such as a table or room.
用法: E.g. 唔該可唔可以幫我make個reservation留兩張枱?(Excuse me, can you help me make a reservation for two tables?)同義詞: 預訂參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3981159/page/19
定義: Often pronounced as 'grandma', this is a code-mixing term that local Hong Kong students use to refer to the set of rules that define the structure of a language, which can be difficult and annoying sometimes like a grandma.
用法: E.g. 今次考試要考埋英文grammar。真係好麻煩呀!(The exam will also cover English grammar this time. So frigging annoying!)同義詞: 語法參考: https://lihkg.com/thread/3389792/page/1