\Puck"a\, a. [Written also {pukka}.] [Hind. pakk[=a]
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.