buirdly
Adjective

buirdly (comparative buirdlier, superlative buirdliest)

  1. (Scotland) Sturdy, well-built; solid, stocky.
    • 1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 293:
      So John Muir was brought in from his seat in the lorry, he was big and cheery and buirdly, John Muir, a roadman of Segget [...].



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