If you refer to someone or the way they speak as ~, you mean that they say very little, usually because they do not want to have a conversation.
He could be gruff and ~.
ADJ
If you refer to someone or the way they speak as ~, you mean that they say very little, usually because they do not want to have a conversation.
He could be gruff and ~.
ADJ
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012