gruff

Adj.	1.	gruff - brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured, crusty ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; "an ill-natured disagreeable old man"
	2.	gruff - 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 hoarse, husky cacophonic, cacophonous - having an unpleasant sound; "as cacophonous as a henyard"- John McCarten

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