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- (of a person's voice) low and unfriendly, or (of a person's behaviour) unfriendly or showing no patience: "Yeah, so what?" came the gruff reply. He's quite a sweet man beneath the gruff exterior.
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What comes to mind for me is a stubborn, ragged man, usually at least middle aged and very standoffish, with a full unkempt beard. A woman can also embody these traits, just without the beard. A gruff person doesn't like small talk, and answers questions with very short answers or grunts.
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Despite looking big, mean, and scary, Fawn the animal fairy, however, sees otherwise of him and becomes his closest friend.
Tink and the other fairies, however, are not so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow. When the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture him, Fawn becomes his only protection, as well prove that he is not what everyone thinks.
It is discovered that he's actually a mighty protector of Pixie Hollow who awakens once every thousand years by the passing of a green comet. The passing is followed by a giant green lightning storm that could destroy the fairies' homes or kill them. To prevent this; Gruff creates four towers, one in each season, to draw the lightning strikes to them. Then after he transforms, he flies around collecting the lightning and holding the energy until the storm has passed. It is shown that he can use the stored lightning to restore life to a dead fairy.
Once Gruff's mission is done, he returns to his den to sleep for another thousand years, until he is needed once more to protect Pixie Hollow.
•Gruff's vocal grunts and growls are a combination of sounds from a cat, dog, llama, hyena, and a camel.
•According to Fawn, Gruff appears to be a hybrid of Didelphis marsupialis and Bison occidentalis. These are the scientific nomenclatures for the common opossum and an extinct species of bison.
•The book about his legend was fragmented, so the truth about him was lost long ago. This was the reason the fairies believed he was a threat until he proved otherwise.
•Gruff resembles the Bandersnatch from the 2010 film, Alice in Wonderland.
1.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc9RrQjBD2w
The tale focuses on three male goats or ‘billy goats’, configured as various family members in different versions of the tale (e.g., mother, father, son), but most often three (young) brothers. ‘Gruff’, by the way, is meant to be their surname, an English rendering of the Norwegian Bruse.
Aug 1, 2024 · The “gruff character” is a popular archetype seen in various forms of media, including literature, film, and television. The gruff persona represents a complexity of emotions concealed beneath a tough exterior. For example: Literature: In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Hagrid is often perceived as gruff due to his appearance and mannerisms.
Characters. The story introduces three billy goats (male goats), sometimes identified as a youngster, father and grandfather, but more often described as brothers. In other adaptations, there is a baby or child goat, mama goat and papa goat.
Billy, Goat, and Gruff are minor characters in the Disney/Pixar Toy Story franchise, and supporting characters in Toy Story 4. They are three porcelain sheep joined together and sometimes mistakenly believed to be a single sheep with three heads.
Key learning points. Imagining you are the character helps to understand events and generate descriptions of the story. Describing how a character is looking or what they are doing helps us to understand the plot of a story.
