"pukkaness" meaning in English

See pukkaness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: pukka + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|pukka|ness}} pukka + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} pukkaness (uncountable)
  1. The state or quality of being pukka. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-pukkaness-en-noun-J83lIb53 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Download JSON data for pukkaness meaning in English (1.5kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pukka",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "pukka + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pukka + -ness",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pukkaness (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen Nugent, Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks, Fourth Estate, page 193",
          "text": "[…] and the continued presence of the World Bank conferred an ultra-pukkaness which has yet to be successfully challenged; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 April 26, Neil Cooper, “Theatre JOURNEY'S END, THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW 4/5”, in The Herald, Scotland",
          "text": "For all the play's stiff-upper-lipped pukkaness, however, Sherriff's language sounds grittily fresh in David Grindley's darkly claustrophobic production.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Brian Paul Bach, Calcutta's Edifice: The Buildings of a Great CIty, Rupa & Co., page 22",
          "text": "Thus they marvelled at the pukkaness of the big city.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being pukka."
      ],
      "id": "en-pukkaness-en-noun-J83lIb53",
      "links": [
        [
          "pukka",
          "pukka"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pukkaness"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pukka",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "pukka + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "pukka + -ness",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pukkaness (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ness",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1990, Stephen Nugent, Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks, Fourth Estate, page 193",
          "text": "[…] and the continued presence of the World Bank conferred an ultra-pukkaness which has yet to be successfully challenged; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 April 26, Neil Cooper, “Theatre JOURNEY'S END, THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW 4/5”, in The Herald, Scotland",
          "text": "For all the play's stiff-upper-lipped pukkaness, however, Sherriff's language sounds grittily fresh in David Grindley's darkly claustrophobic production.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Brian Paul Bach, Calcutta's Edifice: The Buildings of a Great CIty, Rupa & Co., page 22",
          "text": "Thus they marvelled at the pukkaness of the big city.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being pukka."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pukka",
          "pukka"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pukkaness"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-20 using wiktextract (1b9bfc5 and 0136956). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.