There are only 3 words in the English language that end in "gry", could you give me all those 3 words?

Question

I know that 2 of those words are "angry" and "hungry". so what's the other 1?

Answer 1

The two that comes closest are "anhungry" (used by Shakespeare) and "puggry" (a kind of helmet, but that is an alternative spelling)

Answer 2

it's actually an old riddle, here's how it goes:

there are three words in the english language that end in gry, hungry and angry are two of them, but what is the third word in the english language? if you read carefully, you'll see that i've already told you the answer.

the answer is "language" because "language" is the third word in "the english language"

this riddle has been circulated so many times, that people don't even know that it is a riddle anymore. lots of people will give you words like higgry, piggry etc. but those words no longer exist, they are from middle english.

btw, this question has been posted a million times, next time you might save 5 points by just looking it up in the answers file.

Answer 3

From language scholar Richard Lederer:
"The greatest service I can perform for the American people is to announce here that the "-gry" question is one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history. The hoax slithered onto the American scene on a New York TV quiz show, in early 1975. I've tried to bury "-gry" before, but it keeps rising, like some angry, hungry monstrosity from Tales From the Crypt.
The answer to the infernal question is that there is no answer, at least no satisfactory answer. I advise anybody who happens on the angry+hungry+? poser to stop burning time and to move on to a more productive activity, like counting the number of angels on the head of a pin or waiting for a decrease in our property taxes."
Note: There are certain obscure words that end in -gry besides "hungry" and "angry" but they are spelling variants like "augry" which is "augury" misspelled.
A common answer to this riddle is "the English Language" ("There are only three words in the "The English Language...can you give me all three") but this doesn't really make sense because in order for the questioner to mean "The English Language" as opposed to "The English Language that end in gry" the questioner would have to, by the laws of grammar, Enclose "The English Language" in quotation marks.

Answer 4

"There are three words in the English language that end in -gry. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?" There is no third (except some extremely obscure ones). Richard Lederer calls this "one of the most outrageous and time-wasting linguistic hoaxes in our nation's history" and traces it to a New York TV quiz show from early 1975.

Answer 5

The English Language


Touche!

Answer 6

There isn't a third one in current english language usage. You can go into older english and get up to about 130.

Answer 7

angry, hungry, gry

Answer 8

AAAAGGGG!! NOT AGAIN! This must be the zillionth time this question has been posted here. (This, and what rhymes with orange?) I refuse to answer it again.

Answer 9

I dont know

Answer 10

energy