There are only three words in the english language that end with "gry". Two are hungry&angry. Whats the third?

Question

HELP!!!

Answer 1

She did say "english language" Some of those words I have never heard of. But I heard the riddle a different way. Here it is.

Think of words ending in ~gry. "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them.

What is the third word in the English language?

You use it every day, and if you were listening carefully, I've just told you what it is.

The answer, of course, is 'language' (the third word in 'the English language').

Answer 2

There isn't one!!

Without a doubt the most common question we receive from visitors to Fun-with-words.com is about the famous "-gry" puzzle, so we've decided to put the story of this curious puzzle on the site. Here it is.

The puzzle is essentially this: There are three English words ending in "-gry". Two are "angry" and "hungry". What is the third one?

There is no other common word ending in "-gry", so how did the puzzle come about? It first appeared in print in 1975.

Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was meagry or aggry (as in "aggry bead"). There are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry" (see below), and these two were in use until fairly recently. However, since there is no longer a real answer to this, modern versions of the puzzle have turned from being puzzles to being riddles. There are perhaps as many as a dozen versions in circulation - each with a different answer!

Answer 3

There are only three words in "the english language" that end with "gry". Two are hungry&angry. Whats the third?

It's Language, she forgot to put the quotations around "the english language"

the -1 english-2 Language is the third word n__n

Hungry and gry is just there to confuse you and i do not know why.

Answer 4

This puzzler may indeed "KILL YOUR BRAIN!" and "make you so MAD!" -- it certainly has left plenty of victims racking their brains and scratching their heads in decades past. If you don't already know the answer to this one, let us help you preserve your sanity and whatever gray matter you may have left by telling you . . . 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").

Answer 5

According to the OED, there are loads.

the current list is Gry, Anhungry and Puggry

Answer 6

its a trick question I think the answer is either language or english because there are only three words in " the english language". The angry and hungry are there to throw you off
I have seen this one before, my husband asked me this one! either that or there is no answer

Answer 7

There isn't one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Unless you consider these non-common words
* aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the ground in parts of Africa.
* begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary.
* conyngry: a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning 'rabbit warren', which survives in old English field names such as 'Conery' and 'Coneygar'.
* gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with 'cry').
* higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug hiera picra.
* iggry: an old army slang word meaning 'hurry up', borrowed from Arabic.
* meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning 'meagre-looking'.
* menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie.
* nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry.
* podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical term for gout.
* puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree), referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth worn around a sun-helmet.
* skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word scuggery meaning 'secrecy' (the faint echo of 'skulduggery' is quite accidental!).

Answer 8

obviously the girl didn't know the answer and of course didn't realize the catch. That's why she didn't copy-paste it and just wrote it in a way she thought it would be understandable. Don't shoot her like this... Nice riddle by the way

Answer 9

You didn't tell the riddle quite right. Use this for reference:

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/gry

That said, the right answer to the right riddle is "language".


*smooch*

Answer 10

language