Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In British India, temporary, makeshift, inferior, etc.: opposed to pucka (Hind. vakkā, pukka, ripe, cooked, mature), which implies stability or superiority: as, a cutcha roof; a cutcha seam in a coat.
- noun A weak kind of lime used in inferior buildings.
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Examples
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In February it is again manured and ploughed four or five times, and just before the sets are planted, some dung, four cart-loads to each cutcha beegah of low land, and five cart-loads to high land, are added.
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In Zilla, North Mooradabad, 4,200 sets, each eight inches long, are inserted upon each cutcha beegah of low land, and 5,250 upon high land.
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Near Rajahmundry, about 400 cuttings are planted on a cutcha beegah
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Patna, for instance, the pace is four miles and a half an hour; but then "the road is cutcha, and the slightest shower of rain renders it puddly and impracticable for speedy transit."
Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 John Bright 1850
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Having covered the London middle class, Woody's trying his hand with the mockney, but his grasp of the local cutcha seems based on a few viewings of Snatch and the odd Mike Leigh film.
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