English

Noun

pukkaness ‎(uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being pukka.
   • 1990, Stephen Nugent, Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks, Fourth Estate (1990), ISBN 9781872180656, 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 9788129104151, page 22:

     Thus they marvelled at the pukkaness of the big city.