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Definitions of gruff
  1. adjective
    deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion
    "gruff voices" "the dog's gruff barking"
  2. adjective
    brusque and surly and forbidding
    "gruff manner" "a gruff reply"
Definition that contains gruff
  • growling a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal)
  • grunt the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
  • oink the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
  • gruffly in a gruff manner
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