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gruff

English

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

Spanish

  1. 🔊 pardo gruff, hoarse

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