Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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BUILD, v. As in St.Eng., except in the sense of:
1. To pile, to stack.Sc. 1876 S. R. Whitehead Daft Davie 123:
My mother, to keep them [the peats] dry, aye builds them under our beds.
2. In phr. to be built up on someone, to be wrapped up in, devoted to someone (ne., m.Sc. 1975).Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto T. Bodkin xii.:
Maybe Andro Sooter was as muckle built up in Peggy as I was in Tibbie.Fif.10 1937:
She's awfu' built up on that bairn o' hers.
