gruff

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• April 2. 2013 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  gruff — adjective — english

  brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"

• March 24. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

  gruff — adjective — english

  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