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pukka

/puhk-uh/US // ˈpʌk ə //UK // (ˈpʌkə) //

噗嗤,噗通,噗叽,噗噗

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Indian English.

    • : genuine, reliable, or good; proper.

Examples

  • 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.