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Meaning of gruff

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  gruff
      adj 1: brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a
             crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff
             manner"; "a gruff reply" [syn: {crusty}, {curmudgeonly},
             {gruff}, {ill-humored}, {ill-humoured}]
      2: 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 [syn: {gruff}, {hoarse}, {husky}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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