buirdly

adj

adj

Etymology Borrowed from Scots buirdly, alteration of earlier buirly (“burly”), of uncertain origin.

Scotland Sturdy, well-built; solid, stocky.

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 [...].1933, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Cloud Howe (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 293:

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