Definition of gruffer Gruffer
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What does gruffer mean?
Part of speech
🔤- gruffer, adjective, comparative of gruff.
WordNet
Adjectivegruff, gruffer, gruffest |
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| 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 | ||
| gruff - brusque and surly and forbidding; "crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply" | ||
| crusty, curmudgeonly, ill-humored, ill-humoured | ||
| ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- gruff (superl.)
Of a rough or stern manner, voice, or countenance; sour; surly; severe; harsh.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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gruff
gruf, adj. rough, stern, or abrupt in manner: churlish.—adv. Gruff′ly.—n. Gruff′ness. [Dut. grof; cog. with Sw. grof, Ger. grob, coarse.]
