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pukka
[ puhk-uh ]
adjective
- genuine, reliable, or good; proper.
pukka
/ ˈpʌkə /
adjective
- properly or perfectly done, constructed, etc
a pukka road
- genuine
pukka sahib
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Example Sentences
If they were pukka Prayer Books I'd borrow one and try to read it.
So I leaned over, broke the news to a pukka Boy who was aloft with me, and told him to sing it out.
They had begotten "Pukka" Cunningham, who had hacked the name deeper yet in the crisscrossed annals of a land of war.
I gave the old fellow a pukka rupee, for which liberal donation the pair pretended to offer up prayers on my behalf.
They dwelt forcibly on his giving them five rupees, backsheesh—pukka rupees, too.
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