Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pucka adj.

(Anglo-Ind.) stingy, mean.

[Ind]F.J. Bellew ‘Memoirs of a Griffin’ in Asiatic Jrnl & Mthly Register May 52: Tims has quitted the corps, as you probably know. He was a d—d puckha (stingy) hand, and a muggra (sulky) beast into the bargain.