Definition of "pucka" []

• Variant of pukka. (adjective)

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• "Perhaps in Japan he says pucka, but that is the same discussion as the sounds ducks make:"
• "He suspected the pucka lees were still back with the baggage, which would mean a three-mile walk and, by the time he had found them, the battalion would have slaked its thirst from the wells in the village."
• "The northern face of the ravine, which looked towards the unconquered Inner Fort, was now crowded with some three thousand redcoats, most of whom did nothing but sit in whatever small shade they could find and grumble that the pucka lees had not fetched water."