pukka (adj.)
Definition: Genuine, real, first-class.
In play: "His new car had pukka leather seats."
From Hindi pakka and Sanskrit pakva. Indo-European root *pek is cited.
This lovely expression is one of those Hindi words sucked back to the home country through the colorful vocabularies of the civil servants and soldiers of British India. My father (served in India/Burma during WW2) used this word a lot. Certainly, I don't hear it much nowadays. Perhaps it was just a "visitor" into English, now quietly packing its bags and moving back to the subcontinent.
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Pukka
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
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Does he also drive an old TR4 and worry about hair loss? I think I worked for him, too.Ah, yes, the pukka shell necklace of 1970s popularity...
My last boss still wears one! It's really cool on a 55 year old!
-- PW
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What a ride!"
At your service...well, kinda...Mugger? no only half
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I just couldn't come up with the right tagline until Huny's last message.
BTW: Ya' like my tagline? A little edgy, kinda' like me. Makes me think about the family tree not forking.
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Ah, but which tree? Somebody come from the shallow end of the gene puddle?*BTW: Ya' like my tagline? A little edgy, kinda' like me. Makes me think about the family tree not forking.
(*blatantly stolen from Ron Thomason)
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Whenever I see this word I keep confusing it with Pookah (or Púca), from the movie Harvey.
Regards//Larry
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"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Attributed to Richard Henry Lee
Mugger? I hardly know her!Mugger? no only half
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I just couldn't come up with the right tagline until Huny's last message.
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