What are the three english words which end with 'gry'?

Question

This is going to make u mad bt i hope u can help me.There r 3 words in english language that end in ''gry''.One is angry and the is hungry.EveryONE knows what the third ONE means and what it stands for.EveryONE uses them everyday,and if you listen very carefully I've given you the third word.What is it?___________gry?

Answer 1

Here is the riddle in its original form (going back about 20 years):

"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."

In its proper, original form, the first two sentences have absolutely nothing to do with the question: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore those two sentences. They are there only to throw you off course. (And it worked, didn't it?) What's left is the actual riddle itself: "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."
The key is the phrase "the English language." In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word "language." Get it? "Language" is definitely something that "everyone uses every day"! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would be just another trivia question, not a riddle.

You might be tempted to say something like: "That can't be the right answer. It's too stupid!" Hey, remember that most riddles ARE "stupid." For example, there's an old riddle which asks: "What is Bozo the Clown's middle name?" (The answer is "the." Now THAT'S "stupid"!)

A final note: There are, or have been in the past, a number of English words ending in -GRY, for example, "mawgry," and "iggry" and even an obscure noun, "gry," that means a small unit of measure. (For a list of ONE HUNDRED such obscure words, click here.) Many people thought they had solved this puzzle when they found one of these words in old dictionary or by scouring the Internet. But c'mon, folks, when's the last time you used a word like "mawgry" or "iggry" in everyday conversation? The thing about riddles is, you must follow them to the letter or they just don't work. This one got messed up somewhere along the way and has become somewhat of a cruel hoax (and perhaps even an "urban legend").

I hope this explanation has been helpful.

Answer 2

You will have realized by now that it's all a linguistic trick and the the third word in 'the English language' is of course 'language'. Just for completeness we ought to add that there are several other words that end in 'gry', not least 'gry' itself, although that does spoil the puzzle rather: Gry (noun) - 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. For example, from 1679 John Locke's 'Letters to Boyle', 1679: "The longest ... was three inches and nine grys long, and one inch seven lines in girt." Gry (verb) - To rage or roar. For example, from Richard Crew's 'Tasso's Godfrey of Bulloigne', 1594: "The hearing this doth force the Tyrant gry, With threatfull sound." So, now you can give up the search and move on to more useful pastimes.

Answer 3

This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. 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
http://fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html

I cheated.
I searched "words that end in gry"

Answer 4

The answer is language.
It is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996.

Answer 5

The answer is "every," and the logic is as follows: There are three words, ending g, r and y. The first is "fuming," ending in g and meaning angry. The second is "eager," ending in r and meaning hungry. The third is "every," ending in y and clearly something that the word "everyone" uses.

Answer 6

The third word depending on where you start is either the (third word from the top question), going (third word from the beginning of your question) or 3 (third word starting at There are 3 words).

Answer 7

You've asked for the third word, and the third word is "three". "Three is the third word of "There are THREE words in the English..."

Answer 8

Wonderful Riddle...but won't even dare to answer after antmanbee's reply....
Just give the best answer prize to him and be done with it woman....

Answer 9

hungry angry and agree-ee - can be substituted for -y- based on sound. So u get agry.

Answer 10

mmmmm.......quite difficult question
let me think
mmmm angry, hungry......mmmmm jaggery
oh ho
wot is it u only tell na
ok ok mmmm
o my gosh wot a stupid i m i dont know
u only tell please i lose
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ty tc bye
sorry to interrupt
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