Meaning of pukka sahib | Babel Free

Definitions

A person of excellent character.

informal

Examples

“'You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib.'”

“'Why iss it that always you are abusing the pukka sahibs, as you call them?'”

“His (Lee Kuan Yew) first visit to Sri Lanka coincided with the victory of Bandaranaike’s (S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike) newly created Sri Lanka Freedom Party, he calls him a dapper little man, well dressed, articulate and a ‘Pukka Sahib’ a term invented by the British to call the inhabitants of their colonies who followed their ways.”

CEFR level