gruff
adjective/ɡrʌf/
/ɡrʌf/
- (of a voice) deep and rough, and often sounding unfriendly
低沉沙哑的;生硬的 - (of a person’s behaviour) impatient and unfriendly
态度生硬的;不耐烦的;不友好的 - Beneath his gruff exterior, he's really very kind-hearted.
他外表冷漠,心地却十分善良。
- Beneath his gruff exterior, he's really very kind-hearted.
Word Originlate 15th cent. (in the sense ‘coarse-grained’): from Flemish and Dutch grof ‘coarse, rude’, of West Germanic origin.