pukka sahib
English
Noun
pukka sahib (plural pukka sahibs)
- (informal) A person of excellent character.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 135:
- 'You can take it from me that she's all right. She's a pukka sahib.'
- 1934, George Orwell, chapter 3, in Burmese Days, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 36:
- 'Why iss it that always you are abusing the pukka sahibs, as you call them?'
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