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Gruff vs Guttural - What's the difference?

gruff | guttural | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between gruff and guttural

is that gruff is having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature while guttural is sounding harsh and throaty.

As a verb gruff

is to speak gruffly.

As a noun guttural is

a harsh and throaty spoken sound.

gruff

English

Adjective

(er)
  • having a rough, surly, and harsh demeanor and nature.
  • hoarse-voiced.

    • Quotations

    * 1727' "The manner of it was more after the pleasing Transports of those ancient Poets you are often charm'd with, than after the fierce unsociable way of modern Zealots; those starch'd '''gruff Gentlemen, who guard Religion as Bullys to a Mistress, and give us the while a very indifferent Opinion of their Lady's Merit, and their own Wit, by adoring what they neither allow to be inspected by others, nor care themselves to examine in a fair light." — Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury. ''Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times . Vol II. p218 * 1729' "They had no Titles of Honour among them, but such as denoted some Bodily Strength or Perfection, as such an one ''the Tall'', such an one ''the Stocky'', such an one the '''Gruff ." — Joseph Addison, Richard Steele. ''The Spectator. Vol VI, No 433. p146 * 1825' "Mr. Suberville, as well as she, surprised and pleased at this proof of politeness so unsuited to his gouty appearance and '''gruff manners, looked at him in astonishment, but were sorry to perceive him stoop down as if he had strained his leg in the exertion, while the pain it caused seemed to have driven every drop of his blood into his sallow face." — Thomas Colley Grattan. ''High-ways and by-ways. Vol III. p209-10

    Derived terms

    * gruffly * gruffness

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak gruffly.
  • * 2001 , Benny Hinn, He Touched Me: An Autobiography
    • “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 .
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    guttural

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sounding harsh and throaty.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • (label) Articulated at the back of the mouth.
  • Of, relating to, or connected to the throat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A harsh and throaty spoken sound
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=Stanley Waterloo, title=The Wolf's Long Howl, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1912, author=Frederic Stewart Isham, title=A Man and His Money, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He seems quite an exception to some husbands in that respect!" remarked the Berliner in deep gutturals .}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs, title=Jungle Tales of Tarzan, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Teeka is Tarzan's," said the ape-man, in the low gutturals of the great anthropoids.}}