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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Buffoon named, a pip-squeak

Parents name their children with sky-high expectations. You will find an absolute buffoon named Birbal, and a pip-squeak called Shamsher Bahadur. Very few are able to live up to their names. But then, Shah Rukh Khan is living a life beyond even his own imagination. The two Persian words, Shah Rukh, meaning ‘face of a king’, symbolises royalty in Bollywood. Now, it’s time to extend Kingdom Khan’s territory to the cricket field.


Could you please explain to me the emboldened parts?


I know "buffoon" means "a person who does silly things to make laugh others" but I wonder what it means here. Similarly "pip-squeak" means "insignificant or small" but I wonder what it means here.

  

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Those are their meanings here.
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Thank you Mister Micawber.

Then I guess "you will find an absolute buffoon named Birbal" means "you will find a person named Birbal who acts like a buffoon absolutely(completely)"

And "a pip-squeak called Shamsher Bahadu" means "an insignificant name called Shamsher Bahadu".

I mean "a name which doesn't fit to the person" by "insignificant name" though.

Is it c
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Yes. that's right. In reading your passage, I supposed that 'Birbal' means 'intelligent' or 'serious' and 'Shamsher Badahu' means 'big and brawny' or 'giant', etc.
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