2006-09-07 08:21:35 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
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").
2006-09-07 08:26:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Anhungry is the 3rd word. It is an absolute synonym for the word hungry.
Actually there are more then three words...
"Everybody is very pleased that this most recent peak of interest in the riddle is now over and we can get back to some real work. Here, for the record and in case anybody is still interested, are a few other words in -gry that do exist in English, though only specialist dictionary-makers and students of the history of the language have even heard of most of them. I have left out compounds such as land-hungry.
aggry: Coloured and variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, found buried in the ground in Africa. A word of unknown origin. Seemingly always used attributively, as in aggry beads.
braggry: A variant form of braggery. Obsolete.
conyngry: An obsolete dialectal variant of conyger, itself an obsolete term meaning “rabbit warren”.
gry: The smallest unit in Locke’s proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a (“philosophical”) foot. Also the grunt of a pig, an insignificant trifle, or a verb meaning to roar. Obsolete.
iggry: Egyptian colloquial Arabic pronunciation of ijri: “Hurry up!”, brought back after the First World War by members of British and Australian forces who had fought in Egypt.
meagry: Having a meagre appearance. Obsolete.
nangry: A variant form of angry. Obsolete.
podagry: Dodder, or the condition of a plant infested with it.
puggry: A variant form of puggree, a light turban or head-covering worn by inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.
It’s a pretty meagre (or meagry) selection ..."
The quote comes from the second source I sighted.
2006-09-07 15:35:55 · answer #2 · answered by nick91171 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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",
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
2006-09-07 15:30:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no other word that ends in "gry". HOwever, I have seen this riddle before. The question is supposed to read, There are three words ending in "GRY". The first one is "angry", and the other is "hungry". Question: What is the third word in "the English Language"? Answer: language
2006-09-07 16:31:00 · answer #4 · answered by Sprite 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Angry
Hungry
and thats it!!
"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" that is in current usage"
2006-09-07 15:30:01 · answer #5 · answered by rachprime 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a riddle. I have seen it a time or two. I have even known the answer a time or two but am unable to recall it at the moment. You can google the question as see what you come up with.
2006-09-07 15:49:15 · answer #6 · answered by crazyboutracin8 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Proverb
A hungry man is an angry man
Dutch : Hongerige luizen bijten scherper
2006-09-07 15:38:01 · answer #7 · answered by Jim T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angry
Hungry
Sorry ... but it was worth 2 points
2006-09-07 15:29:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
angry, hungry, and onegry ( a state of being alone and unhappy)
2006-09-07 15:29:24 · answer #9 · answered by jaredtcampbell 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
angry, hungry, aggry( a bead), how bout puggry(a indian turban)
2006-09-07 15:30:05 · answer #10 · answered by Me♥Manatees 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋