kutcha

English

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Etymology

From Hindi कच्चा (kaccā, “raw, unripe”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkʌtʃə/

Adjective

kutcha (comparative more kutcha, superlative most kutcha)

  1. Imperfect, makeshift; ramshackle, second-rate.

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Noun

kutcha (uncountable)

  1. Dried brick or mud, used as a material.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Hill of Illusion’, Under the Deodars, Folio Society 2005, p. 44:
      It must be crumbling to pieces. All except the Amirtollah kutcha road. I don't believe that could crumble till the Day of Judgement.

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