pukkaness

English

Etymology

pukka +‎ -ness

Noun

pukkaness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being pukka.
   • 1990, Stephen Nugent, Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks, Fourth Estate, →ISBN, page 193:

     […] and the continued presence of the World Bank conferred an ultra-pukkaness which has yet to be successfully challenged; […]

   • 2005 April 26, Neil Cooper, “Theatre JOURNEY'S END, THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW 4/5”, in The Herald, Scotland:

     For all the play's stiff-upper-lipped pukkaness, however, Sherriff's language sounds grittily fresh in David Grindley's darkly claustrophobic production.

   • 2006, Brian Paul Bach, Calcutta's Edifice: The Buildings of a Great CIty, Rupa & Co., →ISBN, page 22:

     Thus they marvelled at the pukkaness of the big city.

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