gruff

[gruff]

Gruff is an abrupt or forbidding tone. It's the kind of short, brusque response you'd give a telemarketer who called you in the middle of dinner right before you hung up.

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Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.

Adjective 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

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


superl.
Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.


Gruff

Gruff , a. [Compar. Gruffer ; superl. Gruffest.] [D. grof; akin to G. grob, OHG. gerob, grob, Dan. grov, Sw. grof, perh. akin to AS. rc'a2fan to break, Z. reavc, rupture, g- standing for the AS. prefix ge-, Goth. ga-.] Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh. Addison.
Gruff, disagreeable, sarcastic remarks.
-- Gruff"ly, adv. -- Gruff"ness, n.

Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.

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