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[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.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pukka \Puk"ka\, a.
Same as Pucka. [India]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pukka
adj 1: absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka
quarters with a swarm of servants" [syn: pukka,
pucka]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "pukka":
authentic, bona fide, fair, first class, genuine, good, honorable,
indubitable, out-and-out, proper, questionless, real, reliable,
right, simon-pure, sure-enough, thorough, true, well done