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 (1990), →ISBN, page 193:
      […] and the continued presence of the World Bank conferred an ultra-pukkaness which has yet to be successfully challenged; […]
    • 2005, Neil Cooper, "Theatre JOURNEY'S END, THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW 4/5", The Herald (Scotland), 26 April 2005:
      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. (2006), →ISBN, page 22:
      Thus they marvelled at the pukkaness of the big city.

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