pukka
(originally, South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper.
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(originally, South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper.
Maha Rajah said it was necessary to witness it to make it pukka; and they said so too, and then signed it.
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(Britain, slang) Superior or of high quality; first-class; excellent.
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(South Asia) Constructed as a permanent building, with high-quality materials (especially fired clay bricks and tiles as opposed to unfired mud and thatch).
The measures which resulted in the crushing of the mutiny within the Five Rivers, were unquestionably pukka. Pukka and kucha statesmanship are, indeed, two things which time rarely fails to detect, just as it tries the durability of a pu…
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- pakka70%
Definite, confirmed, solid, authentic, genuine. From Hindi पक्का (also Urdu پکا, Punjabi), literally meaning "ripe" or "cooked" — by metaphorical extension "fully formed", "the real thing". In South Asian English used to certify everything from plans ("pakka plan" = confirmed plan, definitely happening) to friendships ("pakka friend" = true friend, ride-or-die) to construction ("pakka house" = a permanent brick-built house, as opposed to a kachha mud-walled one). Also used to confirm a fact in conversation: "Pakka?" — "Pakka." The opposite is "kachha" (raw, unfinished, unreliable). One of the most universally understood words across Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi speakers.
- semipukka65%
(India, of a building) Constructed using a combination of pukka (strong, high-quality) and kutcha (inferior) materials.
- Paki60%
(UK, Canada, by extension) Anyone whose origins are perceived to be from South Asia or the Indian subcontinent.