pukka

How To Use pukka In A Sentence

• They are pukka and top drawer, but with a teeny-weeny, alternative streak.
• With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor. Inside the Whale
• Bhaiya, meanwhile, sent self-pitying letters from near Delhi where he was undergoing military training of his own trials in a world that he found ‘frightfully Poona: chukka, pukka, whisky soda and tiffin: still, I exist.’ Chaplin’s Girl
• In the distance, staggered lines of other pukkawoods rose, each from a crack riven into the saltpan by the advancing lightning. Asimov's Science Fiction
• pukka quarters with a swarm of servants
• Heat-jaded Sahibs and Memsahibs came here to escape the coast's hottest months, they invented snooker at the pukka Ooty Club and came to gossip at Charing Cross - locations were named by the British.
• I've had some pukka food there.
• Once you've seen someone naff wearing the goods, they just aren't pukka any more, not matter how expensive.
• Not fraud, exactly, but neither is it pukka science deserving of that pristine white coat.
• The irony is that, with his frightfully pukka delivery and actorish manner, Stephens's hero seems to be of an older stylistic vintage than anyone else on stage.