Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In British India, temporary, makeshift, inferior, etc.: opposed to pucka (Hind. vakkā, pukka, ripe, cooked, mature), which implies stability or superiority: as, a cutcha roof; a cutcha seam in a coat.
- n. A weak kind of lime used in inferior buildings.
Examples
“In February it is again manured and ploughed four or five times, and just before the sets are planted, some dung, four cart-loads to each cutcha beegah of low land, and five cart-loads to high land, are added.”
“In Zilla, North Mooradabad, 4,200 sets, each eight inches long, are inserted upon each cutcha beegah of low land, and 5,250 upon high land.”
“Near Rajahmundry, about 400 cuttings are planted on a cutcha beegah”
“Patna, for instance, the pace is four miles and a half an hour; but then "the road is cutcha, and the slightest shower of rain renders it puddly and impracticable for speedy transit.”
“Having covered the London middle class, Woody's trying his hand with the mockney, but his grasp of the local cutcha seems based on a few viewings of Snatch and the odd Mike Leigh film.”
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