How To Use Pukka In A Sentence
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They are pukka and top drawer, but with a teeny-weeny, alternative streak.
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The pukka school, which charges parents £18,750 a year to take the weans off their hands, is going through troubled times.
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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
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_ The breaks in the saltpan exposed the waiting pukkawood seeds so that they could receive the elusive rain.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Punters are being warned that buying tickets from illegitimate online sources will cost them almost 70 per cent more than buying pukka tickets.
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`I'll look after Mrs Masterson," he said, in his most pukka voice.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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The pukka school, which charges parents 18,750 a year to take the weans off their hands, is going through troubled times.
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But we persuaded Gil we were actually pukka, so he allowed us to interview him.
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As Patrick stares blankly at the rabbi, Rebecca's dad gets up and explains in his polished and pukka, but perceptibly unEnglish accent:
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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pukka sahib
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Peter, I had forgotten that the showroom is very close to a proper, pukka, belly-dancing club.
Bristol Fashion
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A pukka ministry of tourism, even, is on the cards.
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We were one of only two sets of diners that night; the others were an elderly and rather pukka couple who spent much of the evening talking loudly about the need to tell Hamish to prune their hedge and dredge the ha-ha.
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When talking tipple, the conversation invariably turns to bubbly - carbonated, spritzed, Cap Classique or the real thing, pukka Champagne from France.
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Was it in pukka Pommy books like Biggles?
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It's enough to make you long for a pukka Victorian tale of bwana, bearers and the source of the Nile.
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This is your real pukka darts board, mind you, as seen on TV and everything.
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E.g. pukka road, a macadam surface, cutch road, a mere track.
Fiancée
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A capacity crowd on the Friday night were in top voice to ensure that the show swung along to the accompaniment of cheers, boos and ‘behind you’ as every pukka pantomime should.
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I've no pukkah university bred accent and belong to no high-powered ‘old boys network.’
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‘He is very pukka, from upper middle class North Indian stock,’ one friend said.
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And even pukka experiments in that sphere come up with variations.
THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
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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.
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Not fraud, exactly, but neither is it pukka science deserving of that pristine white coat.
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Once you've seen someone naff wearing the goods, they just aren't pukka any more, not matter how expensive.
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I've had some pukka food there.
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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.
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pukka quarters with a swarm of servants
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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
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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