2006-11-25 22:46:16 · 15 answers · asked by ramza 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Words that End in Gry
Without a doubt the most common question we receive from visitors to Fun-with-words.com is about the famous "-gry" puzzle, so we've decided to put the story of this curious puzzle on the site. Here it is.
The puzzle is essentially this: 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", so how did the puzzle come about? It first appeared in print in 1975.
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 - each with a different answer!
2006-11-25 22:52:34 · answer #1 · answered by philski333 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are at least 50 gry words in addition to angry and hungry, and every one of them is either a variant spelling, as in augry for augury, begry for beggary, and bewgry for (buggery, or ridiculously obscure, as in anhungry, an obsolete synonym for hungry; aggry, a kind of variegated glass bead much in use in the Gold Coast of West Africa; puggry, a Hindu scarf wrapped around the helmet or hat and trailing down the back to keep the hot sun off one's neck; or gry, a medieval unit of measurement equaling one-tenth of a line.
2006-11-25 22:50:31 · answer #2 · answered by Steven H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a trick question... There are only two words that end in "gry"
Angry and Hungry
There are others words as well but non are used in commen english....
meagry (of meager appearance) or aggry (coloured glass beads worn by Africans)
You could also say that Energy also ends in GRY cause you didn't say which order they have to be in....
Good Question!!!
2006-11-25 22:49:32 · answer #3 · answered by nfgprincess69 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are more than 3 hungry angry +
aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the ground in parts of Africa.
begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary.
conyngry: a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning 'rabbit warren', which survives in old English field names such as 'Conery' and 'Coneygar'.
gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with 'cry').
higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug hiera picra.
iggry: an old army slang word meaning 'hurry up', borrowed from Arabic.
meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning 'meagre-looking'.
menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie.
nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry.
podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical term for gout.
puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree), referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth worn around a sun-helmet.
skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word scuggery meaning 'secrecy'
happy now dude ?
2006-11-25 22:58:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angy , hungry I don't believe there is a third.
2006-11-25 22:53:37 · answer #5 · answered by Bella Donna 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hungry
Angry
Stuck on the 3rd one
2006-11-25 22:51:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angry, Hungry and .......working on the third.
2006-11-25 22:48:57 · answer #7 · answered by fuck off 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angry, hungry & hangry(the third one is a hybrid).
2006-11-25 22:50:52 · answer #8 · answered by terry t 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
aggry ..angry..hungry
2006-11-25 22:51:34 · answer #9 · answered by JJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
great ? i dont know but one is angry
2006-11-25 22:48:54 · answer #10 · answered by jpm3usa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋