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gruffish

adj
/ˈɡɹʌfɪʃ/

Etymology

From gruff + -ish.

  1. derived from *grubaz✻ — “coarse, rough”
  2. derived from *grob✻
  3. derived from *grof✻
  4. derived from *grof✻
  5. derived from grof
  6. borrowed from grof
  7. suffixed as gruffish — “gruff + ish”

Definitions

  1. Somewhat gruff.

    • He answered the telephone in a gruffish voice.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gruffish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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