Pucka adj. (Written also pukka) 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."
... decayed vegetable and animal matter. The place had been long remarked for its salubrity by the indigo-planters and merchants of all kinds who resided there; and on the ground which my regiment occupied there was a fine pucka-house, which the officer commanding the brigade and some of his staff occupied. In the rains the whole plain, being very flat, was often covered with water, and thousands of cattle grazed upon it during the cold ... — A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II • William Sleeman
...
