gruff

/ɡɹˈʌf/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

adjective

1. brusque and surly and forbidding
   “crusty remarks”
2. deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion- Virgil Thomson
   “gruff voices”

Synonyms for gruff

• crusty
• curmudgeonly
• ill-humored
• ill-humoured
• ill-natured
• hoarse
• husky
• cacophonous

Words that rhyme with gruff

• rough
• puff
• stuff
• tough
• buff
• bluff
• snuff
• fluff
• scuff
• ruff
• slough
• cuff
• luff
• muff
• rebuff
• enough
• huff
• foodstuff
• handcuff
• duff
• dyestuff
• earmuff
• guff
• overstuff
• tuff
• acuff
• bruff
• cluff
• cuffe
• dayhuff