gruff

having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature.

hoarse-voiced.

a gruff woman

hoarse.

a gruff voice

To speak gruffly.

“Who gave you that?” replied my father angrily. “Did you bribe someone?” “No,” I told him. “It was a gift, from some people who really want me to be on this trip.” “Fine,” he gruffed.

Alternative spelling of grough (“gully in a moor”).

[…] Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where [...] the ordinary sportsman has to go "gruffing," as it is called, to game game, i. e., stealing up the "gruffs" or gullies and undulations in the ground, and trying all the clumps of long old twisted heather and broken bogs. […] the open places on the moor, and thus driving the birds forward to deep lying bogs and "gruffs" […]

They found Uttley's body on the bottom of the gruff.