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pukka definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

also pucka adjective Etymology: Hindi & Urdu pakk? cooked, ripe, solid, from Sanskrit pakva; akin to Greek pessein to cook — more at cook Date: 1776 genuine, authentic; also first-class

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (also pukkah, pucka) Anglo-Ind. 1 genuine. 2 of good quality; reliable (did a pukka job). 3 of full weight. Etymology: Hindi pakka cooked, ripe, substantial

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Pukka Puk"ka, a. Same as Pucka. [India]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something or someone as pukka, you mean that they are real or genuine, and of good quality. (BRIT OLD-FASHIONED) ...a pukka English gentleman. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

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