pukka

adjective3

1. •
   Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper.

   • Maha Rajah said it was necessary to witness it to make it pukka; and they said so too, and then signed it. — 1775
2. •
   Constructed as a permanent building, with high-quality materials (especially fired clay bricks and tiles as opposed to unfired mud and thatch).

   • The kutcha house made of mud, bamboo, and thatch and its modern replacement the pukka house, constructed of fired bricks, cement, and steel. — 2024
3. •
   (UK, slang) Superior or of high quality; first-class; excellent.

   • 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. — 1884