Crossword-Solution: PUKKA 5 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Absolutely first-class 1 answer
Anglo-Indian "first-rate" 1 answer
First-rate, to Kipling 1 answer
Genuine, in Anglo-Indian parlance. 1 answer
Genuine, à la Kipling. 1 answer
Good, of its kind, in India. 1 answer
__ sahib (term of respect in India) 1 answer
CORRECT in behaviour 2 answers
Genuine: Slang. 3 answers
Sahib 9 answers
ABSOLUTELY FIRST CLASS AND GENUINE 11 answers
Real 58 answers
Permanent 70 answers
Authentic 73 answers
Genuine 78 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCMEEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PUKKA (5)

Mind you, it was a pukka, respectable opium-house, and not one of those stifling, sweltering chandoo-khanas, that you can find all over the City.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1999
There stood his bridge before him in the sunlight, lacking only a few weeks’ work on the girders of the three middle piers--his bridge, raw and ugly as original sin, but pukka--permanent--to endure when all memory of the builder, yea, even of the splendid Findlayson truss, has perished.
The Bridge-Builders Rudyard Kipling 2006
There stood his bridge before him in the sunlight, lacking only a few weeks’ work on the girders of the three middle piers—his bridge, raw and ugly as original sin, but _pukka_—permanent—to endure when all memory of the builder, yea, even of the splendid Findlayson truss, had perished.
The Day’s Work Rudyard Kipling 2001
Look at his marginal sketches—aren’t they clear and good? I knew he was _pukka_, but I didn’t know he was as _pukka_ as this!” “I must show these to William,” said Mrs.
The Day’s Work Rudyard Kipling 2001
They had begotten “Pukka” Cunningham, who had hacked the name deeper yet in the crisscrossed annals of a land of war.
Rung Ho! Talbot Mundy 2004

Quotes with PUKKA (1)

I have a daughter from a relationship I had in my late teens or early 20s. Because I felt it wasn't the kind of pukka behaviour my family or relatives would admit to, I denied it for many years.
Steven Berkoff
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1952–2014).