Puck"a (?), a. [Written also pukka.] [Hind. pakkA 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.
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