taciturn, irascible, avuncular, genial, affable, cantankerous, laconic, brash, brusque, grandfatherly, grizzled, curmudgeonly, amiable, easygoing, pugnacious, unassuming, garrulous, flinty, deadpan, drawling, jovial, imperturbable, stoic, surly, hangdog, sardonic, crusty, suave, plainspoken, droll, humorless, gregarious, brusk, urbane, growly, crotchety, stolid, inexpressive, cocky, ornery, wry, folksy, owlish, likeable, boyish, bearlike, jocular, steely, unflappable, jowly, charming, gravelly, courtly, abrasive, mannered, patrician, mustachioed, diffident, loquacious, tenderhearted, acerbic, bristly, chatty, husky, burly, raspy, grumpy, undemonstrative, craggy, likable, snarly, straightlaced, sarcastic, rumpled, nebbishy, gentlemanly, personable, lovable, smarmy, snappish, debonair, phlegmatic, grouchy, hotheaded, bombastic, truculent, bespectacled, bumptious, charismatic, softhearted, goatish, pompous, smart aleck, adenoidal, fatherly, dapper, monosyllabic, kindhearted, basso profundo, brawny, standoffish, unexpressive, bet, banana, bump, bunch, burger, cheque, chunk, hamburger, hitch, nugget, tantrum, airship, auntie, bang, batch, battle, battleship, billy, bit, bite, curt, flippant, testy, ingratiating, nonchalant, noncommittal, querulous, committal, guttural, courteous

growling, gruffly, grunt

cacophonic, cacophonous, crusty, curmudgeonly, hoarse, husky, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-natured