pukkah

If I am going to do as much for Jason as I need to, I am going to have to have more stamina, and it isn't going to come from pukkah Khyber tea and coffee.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

When the maid brought the promised tray up, she got part of her answer; it was a proper English lady's tea'tea, and tiny watercress and cream-cheese sandwiches, and the tea was "pukkah Khyber," (which, roughly translated, meant "the real, genuine, Khyber tea"), as black as sin without the cream and absolutely impossible to drink without sugar.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

“For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies” is surely a complaint that the Quebecois, being unfortunately both Frog and Papist, are not really pukkah and that is therefore a scandal for Parliament to have treated them so liberally.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

We did make pukkah Caesar Salad, from Martha Lomask's brilliant and witty 'All American Cookbook' with the romaine from the plot, and it was outstanding.

Veg Talk and some boats slimmeroftheyea 2009

"If you had let me take it out yesterday, the pain would be gone by now," Iza motioned and went back to stirring a bowl of parched, ground grain, watching bubbles slowly rising with a gentle pukkah, pukkah, pukkah.

The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

We were interlopers and intruders, and had no business in that _pukkah_ Chinese shop.

Peking Dust Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917

“There are some indigenous populaces that cure the scrotums of large animals,” Patrick said, “and in Victorian times it was a fad among some pukkah hunters to take an elephant’s or a lion’s scrotum as a trophy, have the taxidermist turn it into a water bag or a tobacco pouch.

TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

Hunched at Mundy’s side the unfrocked major of Pakistani infantry wears a civilian trilby hat and his old school tie, a regimental tie being no longer pukkah for an outcast found guilty of raising his hand to a brother officer.

Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003