2006-09-07 07:04:24 · 26 answers · asked by littlefras 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
angry, hungry, gry
2006-09-07 07:10:35 · answer #1 · answered by chris j 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
anGRY
hunGRY
BUT there is no 3rd one.... and here is why....
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!
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-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry
aggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry
Agry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry
ahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry
air-hungry gry malgry sex-angry
anhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry
Badagry half-angry managry Shchigry
Ballingry hangry mannagry shiggry
begry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry
bewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry
boroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry
bowgry hogry meagry Sygry
braggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry
Bugry hongry menagry Tchangry
Chockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry
Cogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry
cony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry
conyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry
cottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry
Croftangry hwngry Pingry toggry
diamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry
dog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry
dogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry
Dshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry
Dzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry
eard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry
Echanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry
Egry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry
euer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry
ever-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry
fenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry
YEAH SO HAVE FUN!
2006-09-07 14:10:55 · answer #2 · answered by jlauren0923 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There are two words that end with gry and these are angry and hungry. However, the myth exists that there is a third word that ends with gry but its just that a myth. 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-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry
aggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry
Agry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry
ahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry
air-hungry gry malgry sex-angry
anhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry
Badagry half-angry managry Shchigry
Ballingry hangry mannagry shiggry
begry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry
bewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry
boroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry
bowgry hogry meagry Sygry
braggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry
Bugry hongry menagry Tchangry
Chockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry
Cogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry
cony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry
conyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry
cottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry
Croftangry hwngry Pingry toggry
diamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry
dog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry
dogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry
Dshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry
Dzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry
eard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry
Echanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry
Egry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry
euer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry
ever-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry
fenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry
2006-09-07 14:18:33 · answer #3 · answered by dsd 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Angry, Hungry,
There are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry"
How many would you like?
2006-09-07 14:08:15 · answer #4 · answered by c.arsenault 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Angry
Hungry
Language
2006-09-07 14:11:50 · answer #5 · answered by bellerosez 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There aren't three. There are only two of them. Hungry and angry.
There is a riddle that contains this question- but it's a trick question. Have you seen it before?
2006-09-07 14:13:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Angry Hungry aggry
2006-09-07 14:14:59 · answer #7 · answered by 98ta 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are only 2 in use today but several obsolete, the most used 2 below:
Angry
Hungry
Meagry (Obs)
Aggry (Obs)
2006-09-07 14:07:34 · answer #8 · answered by aubietigerbhm 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Angry
Hungry
Bungry (Bored+Hungry)
2006-09-07 14:11:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hungry
Angry
Mawgry
Iggry
2006-09-07 14:05:46 · answer #10 · answered by rahidz2003 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Angry
Hungry
Hungary - name-sorry
2006-09-07 14:10:08 · answer #11 · answered by Papa John 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋