gruff

Adjective

• 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
    

• brusque and surly and forbidding
  • crusty remarks
    
  • a crusty old man
    
  • his curmudgeonly temper
    
  • gruff manner
    
  • a gruff reply
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hoarse , husky , crusty , curmudgeonly , ill-humored , ill-humoured