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.”

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