there are 3 words in english that ends with 'gry', one is angry, the other is hungry. wads the 3rd one?

Question

apparently this last word is very frequently used, but somehow i do not know the answer. pls help.. haha

Answer 1

The last word is NOT frequently used.

http://www.snopes.com/language/puzzlers/gry.asp

http://blog.funtrivia.com/blogs/archive/2006_7/priscilla9-after_seconds_of_panic-4695.html

This is just a poorly put together riddle.

Answer 2

There is no other word!

To cut it short, there is no other word, the joke is meant to say there are 3 words in the english language that end with gry. So there are three words in the phrase, the english language...

Actually, many words end in -gry, including gry itself, although all but angry and hungry are rare, foreign, obscure or obsolete.The most common "answers" are aggry, a burial bead from Ghana, puggry, a scarf worn around the neck in India to protect the head from the sun, and anhungry, an obsolete form of hungry that was used once in one of Shakespeare's less-popular plays (Coriolanus, Act I, Scene I, line 209); this association with the Bard is enough to earn it a place in Merriam-Webster's Third New International (unabridged)Dictionary of the English Language.
"But that can't be the answer," you groan. No. It's not. There is no answer.
The puzzle is WRONG. "It's a fraud, it's a fake," says Will Shortz, who is the puzzle editor of the New York Times and the host of a puzzle segment on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (NPR, 11/10/96). The actual truth is that
NO other common English word ends in -gry! It's a trick question -- and the trick, at least in some versions, has been lost. Word-puzzle fans and reference librarians have been trying for years to track the question's history to find the original answer. But to do that we need to know what the original question was. And there are several different versions in circulation purporting to be the original.

A very early version, found in an old book by a member of the Stumpers list, goes like this:

"There are three words in the English language that end with 'gry'. Two of these are angry and hungry. The third word is a very common word, and you use it often. If you have read what I have told you, you will see that I have given you the third word. What is the third word? Think very carefully."

The next page of the book gave this answer:

"Three, the question has nothing to do with angry, hungry, or any of the many other obscure words that end in 'gry', it is a simple question asking you what the third word in the sentence is. As you take tests, remember this."

According to Ross Eckler of Word Ways magazine, while there are "nearly one hundred" words ending in -gry, none of them are common. But only one of them (besides angry and hungry) is an adjective, and that is meagry, a word found in the Oxford English Dictionary which means "meager." So meagry would seem to answer the question, at least in this form.

Yet another version that many believe is the original, "right" form of the question, goes thus:

"Two words that end in -gry are 'angry' and 'hungry'. There are three
words in the English language. What is the third word? It's a common word
that everyone knows."

In this case, the answer is the third word in the phrase "the English language", i.e. "language"! The part about "angry and hungry" turns out to be a red herring. (from COPYEDITING-L list and the rec.puzzles Usenet newsgroup's FAQ) People who don't know the trick to this puzzle, by changing the wording when they pass the question along, have mangled the question until there is no real answer! Most people now seem to accept this as the "real" answer.

In short, the "answer" to the question is liable to be any of the following words:

* language
* three
* what
* one
* say

or possibly, just possibly

* meagry

Answer 3

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source
gry



"Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".
There are three words in the English language. What is the
third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it
every day. Look closely and I have already given you the
third word. What is it?

Answer: "language".

This puzzle has circulated widely on the Internet for some
years, but usually in an abbreviated form such as "Name three
common English words ending in 'gry'", which has no good third
answer.

(http://www.word-detective.com/gry.html).

(2001-04-09)


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2005 Denis Howe

Answer 4

The answer is "three" ... it's the way you pronounce it rather than how you spell it ...

The way the question was asked was ... there are 3 words in English that ends with "gry", one is angry, the other is hungry, what's the third one? The hint was If you read carefully, you will find the answer within the question.

Answer 5

This riddle is a play on words.. the answer depends on how you ask the question, but doesn't actually end in -gry.

For example:

1.Think of the 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?

Here the answer can be "language," as its the third word in the phrase

2. "Angry" and "hungry" are two words in the English language that end in "-gry". "What" is the third word. The word is something that everyone uses everyday. .

Here the answer is "what."

Answer 6

'Gry' is a word in itself....however, your question is a common one, a trick question. Only 'Angry' and 'Hungry' END in 'gry', no other word does....but 'Gry' is a word in itself....


\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.]

Answer 7

Hungry, hungry is used twice one's like I'm hungry and one's the country Hungry

Answer 8

This riddle is so old... here you have a list of all variants and solutions: http://fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html

Answer 9

bugry
ThaT WAS A GUESS

SORRY I HIT CAPS LOCK.

Answer 10

BUGRY. HE HE
UGRY ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i am to tired to think. i will be back . :~)