1.
[syn: pukka, pucka]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pucka \Puck"a\, a. [Written also pukka.] [Hind. pakk[=a]
cooked, ripe, solid.]
Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial,
real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of
brick and mortar. [India]
It's pukka famine, by the looks of it. --Kipling.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pucka
adj 1: absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka
quarters with a swarm of servants" [syn: pukka,
pucka]