Usage examples (21)

• In after years, when he filled and rounded out, he had a manly open look, illumined always as by sunlight for his friends, and a well-proportioned, 'buirdly' form, that...
• "Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see...
• A quick, fierce glance of anger shot from the eyes of this buirdly Scot.
• There my kettle boiled for forty years; there I bore twelve buirdly sons and daughters.