the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Solid; substantial; real; permanent; lasting: as, a pucka wall; a pucka road: opposed to cutcha. [Anglo-Ind.]
n. A coin: as, a pucka pice. It sometimes denotes a coin of double weight and sometimes one from the government mint.
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adj. absolutely first class and genuine
Word Usage
"He suspected the pucka lees were still back with the baggage, which would mean a three-mile walk and, by the time he had found them, the battalion would have slaked its thirst from the wells in the village."