2006-08-21 08:36:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
I think you will find that the question in it's original form reads:
Angry and hungry are two words that end in '-gry'. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it?
Or a varient on it. if you look at the 2nd sentence, it's asking for the third word in "the English language", so the answer is language,
or,
It seems that aside from words based on "angry" or "hungry" (such as "dog-hungry"), Webster's Third New International unabridged dictionary lists only one word ending in "gry" -- "aggry," meaning a type of prehistoric bead. But it seems quite a stretch to classify "aggry" as a common English word. Elsewhere, the Oxford English Dictionary, among others, also lists "gry" as a word all by itself, meaning a very small distance (about a tenth of an inch in John Locke's proposed decimal system). The Greek root of "gry" is noted in the OED as possibly meaning "the grunt of a pig," presumably one who was offered "gry" as a solution to this puzzle.
2006-08-21 08:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by pjm 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in "-gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it?
This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:
affect-hungryfire-angryMacLoingrySeagry
aggryGagrymad-angryself-angry
Agrygirl-hungrymad-hungryselfe-angry
ahungrygonagrymagrysensation-hungry
air-hungrygrymalgrysex-angry
anhungryhaegryman-hungrysex-hungry
Badagryhalf-angrymanagryShchigry
Ballingryhangrymannagryshiggry
begryheart-angryMargryShtchigry
bewgryheart-hungrymaugrysight-hungry
boroughmongryhigry pigrymawgryskugry
bowgryhogrymeagrySygry
braggryhogrymogrymeat-hungryTangry
BugryhongrymenagryTchangry
Chockpugryhound-hungrymessagryTchigry
Cogryhoungrymusic-hungrytear-angry
cony-gryhuggrymuggrynangryth'angry
conyngryhund-hungryoverangrytike-hungry
cottagryHungry BungryPelegryTingry
CroftangryhwngryPingrytoggry
diamond-hungryiggryPodagryulgry
dog-hungryJagryPongryunangry
dogge-hungryjob-hungrypottingryvergry
Dshagrykaingrypower-hungryVigry
Dzagryland-hungryprofit-hungryvngry
eard-hungryLangrypuggrywar-hungry
Echanuggryleather-hungrypugryWigry
Egryledderhungryred-angrywind-hungry
euer-angrylife-hungryrungryyeard-hungry
ever-angryLisnagryscavengryyird-hungry
fenegrylosengrySchtschigryYmagry
2006-08-21 08:52:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The -Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than "angry" and "hungry," that ends with the letters "gry." Aside from words derived from "angry" and "hungry," there is no stand-alone word ending in "gry"
2006-08-21 08:45:12 · answer #3 · answered by scouse_nz 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some body has been flicking through the FHM desk calendar, there are only two words that end in GRY in the english dictionary........
2006-08-21 08:48:55 · answer #4 · answered by spud 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think most of us are pretty tired of this one. Why do people keep asking the same tired old questions?
2006-08-21 10:34:46 · answer #5 · answered by quatt47 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Imaginary! Obviously!
2006-08-21 08:43:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
there is a third and a fourth - unangry and unhungry
2006-08-21 08:46:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"whats" literally the third one if thats a riddle???
2006-08-21 08:47:11 · answer #8 · answered by Sus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gry?
2006-08-21 09:23:02 · answer #9 · answered by kejan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wangry! as in angry wangry!
2006-08-21 08:46:07 · answer #10 · answered by sinnedfairy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋