Pukka

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pukka \Puk"ka\, a.
     Same as {Pucka}. [India]
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pukka
       adj : absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka
             quarters with a swarm of servants" [syn: {pucka}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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