Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(N.Z.) a general negative, unattractive, unpleasant.

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2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 107: huckery Unwell, unattractive or unpleasant. You could feel huckery, and you could see someone you regarded as huckery. Could be evolved from the Maori pakaru, ruined, via its corruption as ‘puckeroo’ and then ‘huckeroo’.
2010		W. Ings ‘Trolling the Beat to Working the Soob’ in Int’l Jrnl Lexicog. 23:1 73: [H]uckery meaning despicable, ugly, or broken [...] was normally used to describe a trashed (drunk, stoned or dishev¬eled) worker [...] but could sometimes be employed to describe makeup, clothes or a particularly unsavory [sexual] encounter.