Pukka

Definition: Pukka

Pukka

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.
 

Date "pukka" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1901. (references)

Synonym: Pukka

Density

Adjective: dense, solid; solidified. Verb: caseous; pukka; coherent, cohesive; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous; incompressible; constipated; concrete. (hard); knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous, stuffy.

Preparation

Ripe, mature, mellow; pukka; practiced; (skilled); labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.

Truth

Pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka.

Crosswords: Pukka

Pukka Tukka (2001)

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

Books

• Pukka Sahib and Other Stories (reference)

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

Albanian

i shkëlqyer (admirable, bright, brilliant, capital, choice, copybook, corking, crack, cracking, Dandy, divine, excellent, fabulous, famous, fantastic, fantastical, fine, first rate, flamboyant, gaudy, glazy, glorious, glossy, gorgeous, great, heavenly, immense, marvellous, marvelous, perfect, pink, plum, powerful, prize, rare, ripping, royal, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, whizzbang, wicked), i mirë (benign, canny, carriageable, decent, desirable, fine, gentle, good, good tempered, goodly, handsome, keen, kind, kindhearted, kindly, lovely, nice, pleasant, salable, tops, virtuous), i besueshëm (authoritative, believable, certain, conceivable, credible, dependable, plausible, probable, reliable). (various references)

Arabic 

‏أصلي (authentic, bona fide, ethnic, ethnical, fundamental, genetic, genetical, original, overriding, premier, prime, primordial, pristine, proper, radical, true), ‏راقي (elegant, select, selected, sophisticated). (various references)

Bulgarian 

солиден (lusty, massive, massy, portly, pucka, 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, pucka, 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, pucka, 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)

French

véritable, snob, de premier ordre, authentique. (various references)

German

echt (authentic, bona fide, fast, genuine, genuinely, legit, natural, positively, proper, properly, real, really, sincere, thorough, true, truthful, typical, unaffected, unfeigned, veritable). (various references)

Hungarian

valóságos (actual, bodily, factual, live, practical, real, simple, veritable, very), igazi (actual, practical, proper, pucka, pure, quite the thing, real, right, simon-pure, some, tangible, veritable, very), teljes (absolute, absorbing, all-out, at full speed, bag of tricks, clear, complement, complete, consummate, crass, entire, exhaustive, fore-and-aft, full statement, full-blood, global, gross, integrate, integrated, out and out, perfect, plenary, Plumb, regular, restitution of all things, right-down, round, setout, to come in for one's full share of sg, to pelt, to the full, to the top of one's bent, to transmogrify, total, undivided, utter, very, whole), hiteles (authentic, crediting, documentary, genuine, true, trustworthy, unexceptional), elsőrangú (choice, classic, premier, ripping, tiptop, topping). (various references)

Manx

kiart (accurate, concession, correct, due, exact, just, level, orthodox, precise, prerogative, proper, right, thorough-paced, title, true, true real, undeviating). (various references)

Pig Latin

ukkapay

Portuguese

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

Russian 

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

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

legítimo (aboveboard, genuine, legal, legitimate, real, rightful, sound), genuino (authentic, genuine, sterling, true), auténtico (authentic, bona fide, genuine, real, realistic, real-life, simon-pure, solid, true, unfailing). (various references)

Swedish

perfekt (consummate, essential, mint, perfect, perfectly, the perfect tense, tiptop, to a turn), riktig (apposite, appropriate, correct, fair, just, out and out, perfect, plentiful, positive, proper, pucka, right, righteous, sound, thorough, true), förstklassig (crack, Dandy, first class, first rate, first-class, first-rate, prime, quality, sterling, tiptop, top flight). (various references)

Turkish

lüks (costliness, costly, de luxe, grandeur, lux, luxe, luxurious, luxury, plushy, posh, ritzy, stateliness, sumptuous, sumptuousness, swish, Tony, voluptuous), kaliteli (choice, classic, glorified, high-toned, jammy, of good quality, of high quality, qualified, wire-wove), hakiki (bona fide, dinkum, dyed in the wool, genuine, pucka, 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, pucka, 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), birinci sınıf (banner class, best, classic, commanding, first chop, first class, first rate, hunky-dory, in style, jammy, of the first water, pucka, slap up, super, tiptop, top drawer, topflight, topping, tops, wire-wove). (various references)

Ukrainian

справжній (active, actual, authentic, factual, genuine, honest, intrinsic, intrinsical, natural, operative, original, practical, real, sheer, simon-pure, sincere, true, true born, unadulterated, undoubted, unfeigned, veridic, veridical, veritable, very), фундаментальний (radical), повновагий (plump), першокласний (a, bang up, bully, classy, clinking, crackajack, crackerjack, exclusive, first class, hunky-dory, prime, superfine, tiptop, top flight). (various references)

Vietnamese 

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: auk.

-3 letters: ka, pa, up.