gruff

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gruff Definition

• (s) brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"
• (s) deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog''s gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson

gruff Synonyms

• crusty
• curmudgeonly
• gruff
• hoarse
• husky
• ill-humored
• ill-humoured