there are three words that end with 'gry '.which are they?

Answer 1

Angry
Hungry
and Gry is a word.

Gry

\Gry\, n. [Gr ? syllable, bit.] 1. A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] --Locke.

2. Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Answer 2

The Third English Word Ending on "gry"

Sorry, this one is not much fun. This question was inflicted on us, according to Richard Lederer by the Bob Grant radio talk show on WMCA in New York City in 1975, someone who almost but not quite had a sense of humor. The original question ran something like this:

There are three commonly used words in the English language which end on '-gry'. 'Angry' and 'hungry' are two of them. What is the third word? It is a common word you use every day and if you have been listening to what I say, you have already heard it.

The originator thought that the answer to this question could be "hungry", i.e. that there would be some ambiguity with "third word in the preceding sentence". Unfortunately, that interpretation is not available for the message.

Others would have the original riddle as going more like this:

There are three words in the English language that end on "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. What is the third word in 'the English language'?)

Here is intended answer is 'language', the third word in the phrase, 'the English language'. Again, the second line fails the ambiguity test and thus as a riddle that anyone could rightly remember.

Yet another explanation is that the riddle was originally an oral one which went this way:

There at least three words in that end in 'g' or 'y'. One of them is 'hungry,' and another one is 'angry.' There is a third word, a short one, which you probably say every day. If you are listening carefully to everything I say, you just heard me say it three times. What is it? The answer here is, of course, 'say'.

Rush Elkins recalls his first experience with the riddle this way:

I first heard the "gry" riddle posed in slightly different form in 1969 or 1970 [so much for Lederer's theory--RB]. I was then in graduate school at University of Florida and in the habit of meeting with a group of friends every Wednesday evening for dinner, drinks, and conversation. One of those evenings, someone challenged the group to find three common English words containing the letter combination "gry." I'm sure that there was no stipulation on the placement of "gry" because I recall someone suggesting that it might occur at the boundary of a compound word. (That turns out to lead nowhere.)

A year or two later, I encountered the word "gryphon" in a book, had one of those aha! experiences, and presented my find at the next meeting as a sort of trophy. Although not exactly an everyday sort of word, "gryphon" appears in most dictionaries and is understood by most literate English readers. (How many times have YOU used it today?)

There are other explations as well. They all boil down to a bad riddle gone beserk.

Answer 3

The riddle is: There are three words in the English language that end with "gry"

The answer is:

Angry
Hungry
Language

Answer 4

Angry
Hungry
and
affect-hungry
fire-angry
MacLoingry
Seagry
aggry
Gagry
mad-angry
self-angry
Agry
girl-hungry
mad-hungry
selfe-angry
and many others

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

Answer 5

It's a trick question! I fell for it! I spent hours and years trying to find the other one!
There are only 2! Angry and hungry.
All the other words that end with the same sound end with gree (agree, degree, pedigree, et. al.).

Answer 6

Angry...hungry...and I don't know if there is a third. A lot of people seem to think the same thing.

Answer 7

Angry
Hungry
Jagerry

Answer 8

I get angry when I am hungry and have nothing to eat, so I call the cook Langry to cook me dinner. then I am not hungry or angry anymore. and Langry does the dishes. : S

Answer 9

There are only two.
And I went a did some research and came up with that link.

Answer 10

Angry
Hungry
Jhangry