2006-09-21 01:16:35 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Oh rats you took the 2 words I could think of...lol.
2006-09-21 01:18:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps the whole puzzler is more a grade school antic than anything else. The way I heard the setup for the question was this:
There are three words in the English language that end with "gry."
One is hungry and the other is angry. What is the third word? Everyone uses this word every day, everyone knows what it means, and knows what it stands for. If you have listened very closely I have already told you the third word.
If you read the second sentence you see that the "third" word is "hungry".
The author is writing here about the third word in the second sentence of the riddle, exactly as quoted, NOT some mythical third commonly used English word ending in "-gry". i admit this is a rather stupid riddle, but then i didn't make it up
2006-09-24 18:25:18 · answer #2 · answered by daftarseuk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
language is the answer. The joke actually goes like this:
Think of words ending in "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. There are only three words in "the English language." What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
Edit: No, Semper. Lisa said that there are three words in the english language that end in "gry". The joke is there are only three words in the phrase "the english language." And language is the 3rd word in that phrase.
2006-09-21 08:20:48 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix Rising 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Language
2006-09-21 12:43:16 · answer #4 · answered by Santee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Language
2006-09-21 08:24:25 · answer #5 · answered by Adele P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, unfortunately, if you were aiming to post the old riddle with the answer being 'language' you have failed to do so. If you do not get the wording of the riddle right it does not make sense...... and what you have written does not allow for the alternative answer, rather it categorically asks what the third word ending in -gry is... and there isn't one that is commonly used.... and several that exist but are not common. Poor question all round, I'm sorry to say,,,,,
2006-09-21 09:02:40 · answer #6 · answered by eriverpipe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many words that end in gry - over a hundred in fact, but they are mostly obsolete words that nobody uses any more.
Gry (noun) a hundredth of an inch
Gry (verb) to rage or roar
Aggry - A glass bead found in the ground in Ghana
Puggry - A scarf worn over a helmet to protect the head from the sun
Meagry - Of a meagre appearance
2006-09-21 08:22:55 · answer #7 · answered by Mordent 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gry, Gry, Everywhere, and Not a Clue in Sight.
My favourite article on this riddle, which has been asked on Yahoo 287 times last time I checked.
2006-09-21 09:11:42 · answer #8 · answered by Ford 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no other common word ending in "-gry", All of them are obsolete. Words like 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, and others
2006-09-21 08:31:15 · answer #9 · answered by Moon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The English language" has three words. Language is the 3rd one. LOL.
2006-09-21 15:21:11 · answer #10 · answered by callahan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
language
2006-09-21 13:50:11 · answer #11 · answered by misspurplesusi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋