Hindi idioms

What does "shilir vilir" means in the next sentence?

शिलिर-विलिर टाइप होता तो वह उस निगाह के आगे वहीं ढह जाता

shilir-vilir type hota to voh nigaah ke aage vahin dhah jaata

I think it is colloquial usage: Need to know the full paragraph. It can mean -

" A not so stellar reputation or credentials" meaning "He would have fallen the in the eyes of...had he been..."

http://books.google.com/books?id=Tx1...%A4%B0&f=false

hope this works.

Yes, as I suspected it is like Aira-gaira, Altu-Faltu lightweight. I will await the linguists in the house to correct me

It means weak, or not with sufficient strength, or slow depending on the usage. Here it most likely means a person with low level of confidence or a pushover.

I must add shreder, that you bring out idioms that are new to me too, and it is fun to get to understand them.

Yes..the both Jitu and nycank are correct....
As it mean
"The person was not so weak otherwise could have fallen(afraid) of such a Stare(look,that the other person might have giving him)"

This forum is gonna quite interesting and learning for me as i have also came across new HIndi Idioms reported by Shreder....Thanks Mate..

Thanks for you're responses, and your compliments.

What is the meaning of the word जफड़ी - japhdi?

What's the context? I am not familiar with this particular form but I have heard the expression jaaph lagna in the sense of "to become unconscious".

There is a group of herdsmen sitting together and gambling. One of the characters spots them:

जुआरियों की जपड़ी जमी देखकर

juaariyon ki japdi jami dekhkar

So it's p, not ph! Japdi is a jap-session, i.e. a person or a group of people sitting together reciting mantras. Here is an example!

Thanks Golghar! It's always a pleasure to read your posts.
But actually it is an aspirated p in the original text. It was a typing mistake by my side in the second post.

Your translation fits the context perfectly, because there's an abundant use in the book of words with high religious and philosophical connotations, to describe very earthly and crude scenes.
I saw in the dictionary that there's a word: जफ़ा - jafaa, which also means "rudeness", "roughness". So maybe it's a kind of a word play. Though that might be kind of a stretch.

Jafaa lies well on the Urdu side of the "style-boundary". I have never heard it with the "domesticated" pronunciation japhaa which would be more appropriate for the colloquial context you seem to be referring to.

Got another word for you kind people.
what does "chikva" means in this sentence:

सोते हुए इंसान को बकरे जैसा काट डालना बहादुरी नहीं है जवान, यह चिकवे का काम है


sote hue insaan ko bakre jaisa kaat daalna bahaaduri nahi hai javaan, yah chikve ka kaam hai.

From the context this seems to mean coward.

It could be a variant of chakva (in Urdu both would be written identically) which refers to a species of bird. I think it is the bar-headed goose (anser indicus). Bird-watchers, please correct me if I am wrong!

Are geese supposed to be cowards in Indian folklore?