there are only 3 words in english language that end in "GRY". 1. is ANGRY 2. is hungry.?

Question

everyone knows what that third one means and what is stands. for everyone uses them everyday and if you listen to me carefullly i've give given you the third word what is it?

Answer 1

You left out "the"... the question should have been. There are 3 words in "the English language" ... the third word is "language"

Answer 2

"Actually, many words end in -gry, including gry itself, although all but angry and hungry are rare, foreign, obscure or obsolete.The most common "answers" are aggry, a burial bead from Ghana, puggry, a scarf worn around the neck in India to protect the head from the sun, and anhungry, an obsolete form of hungry that was used once in one of Shakespeare's less-popular plays (Coriolanus, Act I, Scene I, line 209); this association with the Bard is enough to earn it a place in Merriam-Webster's Third New International (unabridged)Dictionary of the English Language.
"But that can't be the answer," you groan. No. It's not. There is no answer.
The puzzle is WRONG. "It's a fraud, it's a fake," says Will Shortz, who is the puzzle editor of the New York Times and the host of a puzzle segment on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (NPR, 11/10/96). The actual truth is that
NO other common English word ends in -gry! It's a trick question -- and the trick, at least in some versions, has been lost. Word-puzzle fans and reference librarians have been trying for years to track the question's history to find the original answer. But to do that we need to know what the original question was. And there are several different versions in circulation purporting to be the original."

so maybe it's 'gry' lol

Answer 3

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aggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa.

begry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty).

conyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren').

gry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

higry-pigry: a corruption (along with 'hickery-pickery' and 'hicra picra') of the Greek 'hiera picra' (approximately 'sacred bitters'), a term for many medicines in the Greek pharmacopoeia, particularly a purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark.

iggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!"

meagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.'

menagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.'

nangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.'

podagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.'

puggry: a 19th-century alternate spelling of 'puggaree' or 'puggree,' derived from the Hindi 'pagri,' a word for a light turban or head covering worn in India.

skugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.'
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The most common guess is that this riddle is indeed a trick question, but the point of the trick has been lost through the rearrangement of the riddle's wording as it has been passed along through the years. Consider an alternate version of this puzzler:

Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
This version supports the theory that the first two sentences are red herrings; the catch is that the teller is literally asking you to identify the third word of the phrase "the English language" -- there are only three words in the phrase "the English language," the third word ("language") describes something that one uses every day, and "language" is indeed a word which the teller has "already told you." This explanation also supports the contention that this riddle was meant to be presented orally, because a properly punctuated written version would make the gimmick too obvious:

Think of words ending in -GRY. "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. There are only three words in "the English language." What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Another hypothesis is that the current form of the riddle is a corruption of a yet another version, one which must also be delivered orally for its gimmick to make sense:

There are at least three words in the English language that end in g or y. One of them is "hungry" and another is "angry." There is a third word, a short one, which you probably say every day. If you listened carefully to everything I say, you just heard me say it. What is it?
The catch here is that by offering the examples of "hungry" and "angry," the teller misleads the listener into thinking he's asking for a word ending in "GRY" when he's really asking for a word ending in "G or Y." The correct answer in this case is "say," a short word ending in "y" which the teller had pronounced three times in the course of presenting the riddle.

Answer 4

there is no answer. Other than 'hungry' and 'angry,' there is no English word ending with the letters 'gry' which the average native speaker of English would recognize, much less "use every day" (and certainly none which a teller of this riddle could claim to have "already given you").

All other words ending in 'gry' which one might find in even the most comprehensive English dictionary are either archaic terms or obsolete variant spellings, such as:


aggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa.

begry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty).

conyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren').

gry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

higry-pigry: a corruption (along with 'hickery-pickery' and 'hicra picra') of the Greek 'hiera picra' (approximately 'sacred bitters'), a term for many medicines in the Greek pharmacopoeia, particularly a purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark.

iggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!"

meagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.'

menagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.'

nangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.'

podagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.'

puggry: a 19th-century alternate spelling of 'puggaree' or 'puggree,' derived from the Hindi 'pagri,' a word for a light turban or head covering worn in India.

skugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.'

Answer 5

the third word in "the english language" is language

Answer 6

www.fun-http:with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
There is no third word, in 1975 was the first print of this riddle. There is no third word unless they meant, meagry or aggry. Which to this day is still unknown. The answer is, there is not one.

Answer 7

what, the riddle is not even written correctly. There is no "the". So technically there is no third word in "English language."

Answer 8

i heard this 1 before...its english language or just language

Answer 9

language

Answer 10

is gry a word?? i would say agree but that doesnt end in gry