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Pucka

Definition: Pucka

Pucka

Adjective

1. (India) absolutely first class and genuine; "pukka sahib"; "pukka quarters with a swarm of servants".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Pucka \Puck"a\, adjective. [Written also pukka.]. (Websters 1913)


Specialty Definition: Pucka

DomainDefinition

Literature

Pucka an Indian word in very common use, means real, bona fide; as, "He is a commander, but not a pucka one" (i.e. not officially appointed, but only acting as such, pro tempore). "The queen reigns, but her ministers are the pucka rulers." A suffragan bishop, an honorary canon, a Lynch-judge, a lieutenant-colonel, the temporary editor of a journal, are not "pucka," or bona fide so. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Pucka

Synonym: pukka (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Pucka

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hrvatski ukrsni obicaji : korizmeno-uskrsni obicaji hrvatskog puka u prvoj polovici XX. stoljeca : svakidasnjica, pucka poboznost, zajednica (reference)

  • Zatoka Pucka : praca zbiorowa (reference)

  • Zatoka Pucka jako obszar drenazu wód podziemnych (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pucka

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pucka

6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Pucka

Language Translations for "pucka"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i vërtetë (actual, authentic, bona fide, downright, effective, faithful, flesh and blood, genuine, objective, perfect, positive, practical, proper, real, right, substantial, true, truthful, uncoined, unfailing, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, virtual). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

солиден (lusty, massive, massy, portly, pukka, rugged, secure, solid, sound, steady, sterling, substantial, trustworthy, valid), първокласен (champion, classic, classical, clinking, exclusive, first class, first rate, five-star, gilt-edged, number one, posh, prize, pukka, ranking, scratch, slap up, slashing, swell, top notch, topflight, top-hole), истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, precious, proper, pukka, pure, real, regular, regularly, right, right-down, sheer, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

igazi (actual, practical, proper, pukka, pure, quite the thing, real, right, simon-pure, some, tangible, veritable, very). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uckapay

   

Portuguese

  

permanente (abiding, consolidated, constant, continual, everlasting, indelible, lasting, perdurable, perm, permanent, perpetual, persistent, pukka, standing, sustained), verdadeiro (actual, breathing, natural, practical, pukka, real, rightful, sincere, true, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, very), solidamente construído (pukka), genuíno (bona fide, genuine, good, mere, natural, pukka, pure, round, solid, sterling, true), autêntico (authentic, natural, pukka, pure, real, round, sterling, true, true-born, unadulterated, unfeigned, veritable, very). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

настоящий (actual, arrant, honest, natural, perfect, practicable, present, pukka, real, regular, simon-pure, unadulterated, unfabled, veritable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pravi (genuine, ortho-, plumb, proper, pukka, real, sheer, simon-pure, stark, sterling, thorough, true), istinski (authentic, bona fide, pukka, real, simon-pure, sterling, true). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

verklig (actual, factual, fair, intrinsic, literal, perfect, practical, proper, real, regular, substantial, substantive, true, true born), riktig (apposite, appropriate, correct, fair, just, out and out, perfect, plentiful, positive, proper, pukka, right, righteous, sound, thorough, true). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

hakiki (bona fide, dinkum, dyed in the wool, genuine, pukka, real, rightful, sterling, straight out, true, veritable), gerçek (actual, actualities, authentic, bona fide, dinkum, earnest, exact, fact, factual, for real, genuine, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, intrinsic, literal, low down, lowdown, proper, pukka, real, reality, right, rightful, sincere, sooth, sterling, straight out, substantial, tangible, the real, the true, troth, true, truth, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veracity, veritable, Verity, very, virtual), en iyi kalite (tiptop), birinci sınıf (banner class, best, classic, commanding, first chop, first class, first rate, hunky-dory, in style, jammy, of the first water, pukka, slap up, super, tiptop, top drawer, topflight, topping, tops, wire-wove). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thực loại tốt (pukka, pukkah), loại nhất (first-chop, first-class, first-rate, pukka, pukkah), không giả mạo (pukka, pukkah). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pucka

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-k-p-u"

-1 letter: pack, puck.

-2 letters: auk, cap, cup, pac.

-3 letters: ka, pa, up.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-k-p-u"
 

+1 letter: backup, unpack.

 

+2 letters: backups, crackup, cupcake, mudpack, stackup, unpacks.

 

+3 letters: crackups, cupcakes, humpback, mudpacks, pullback, skullcap, stackups, unpacked, unpacker.

 

+4 letters: humpbacks, parbuckle, pullbacks, sapsucker, skullcaps, unpackers, unpacking.

 

+5 letters: bankruptcy, humpbacked, parbuckled, parbuckles, sapsuckers, superflack, supplejack.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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