Brewer's: Pucka

an Indian word in very common use, means real, bona fide; as, “He is a commander, but not a pucka one” (i.e. not officially appointed, but only acting as such, pro tempore). “The queen reigns, but her ministers are the pucka rulers.” A suffragan bishop, an honorary canon, a Lynch-judge, a lieutenant-colonel, the temporary editor of a journal, are not “pucka,” or bona fide so.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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