gruff

adjectives

brusque and surly and forbidding
"crusty remarks"; "a crusty old man"; "his curmudgeonly temper"; "gruff manner"; "a gruff reply"
crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored, ill-humoured
is derived from
gruffness
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
gruff, hoarse, husky
is derived from
gruffness