*pucka*

‖a. [ Written also pukka. ] [ Hind. pakkā cooked, ripe, solid. ] Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial, real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick and mortar. [ India ]

It's pukka famine, by the looks of it. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]