pukka

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  • If it was pukka, and only then, I'd pop it on our stall and sell it at the usual commission. —  EQMM,August2007
  • So you want to learn how to cook but you can't bear all of those grisly celebrity chefs trying to seduce you with their 'pukka' recipes. —  Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • So underlining my pukka suburbanite status with Vodafone Tuesdays, I found myself in a multiplex late last night, watching Pink Panther —  Desicritics
  • If you missed last night's episode, stay put until we come back with pukka-shell necklaces and a submarine manifest. —  E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • Four years ago, Collins included both phrases in its dictionary, thereby recognizing them as pukka Hinglish. —  The Times of India
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  1. Hindi pakkā, cooked, ripe, from Sanskrit pakva-, from pacati, he cooks; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.
 

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