2007-02-06 06:29:47 · 25 answers · asked by suzi b 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
You got the riddle wrong, but the 'proper' answer is;
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' (the faint echo of 'skulduggery' is quite accidental!).
2007-02-06 06:39:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
You messed it up. It's supposed to be "There are three words that end in "ngry" in the English language. What is the third word in the English language? The answer, of course, is "language."
2007-02-06 06:40:38 · answer #2 · answered by Cat Loves Her Sabres 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to be really pedantic here, but you phrased the question wrong if you were hoping to trick people!
SPOLIER!!!!!
If you want to trick people, you should phrase it:
"Angry and Hungry are two words that end with 'ngry'. There are 3 words in the english language. What is the third?"
The answer is 'language'.
Il let you work it out :P coz i'm mean!
END SPOILER!!
2007-02-06 06:49:56 · answer #3 · answered by . 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
here are only 3 words in the English language that contain 3 sets of consecutive double letters. They are: bookkeeper bookkeeping sweettooth There are others that contain 3 sets of double letters but not consecutively. Some are: assessee keelless Mississippi committee keenness addressee
2016-03-29 08:00:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
angry, hungry, anhungry. go to marriam-webster online type *ngry press enter it will give you all the listings ending in ngry
2007-02-06 07:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by wise man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angry and Hungry can't think of the other one.
2007-02-06 21:29:10 · answer #6 · answered by Rubber * Duckie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hungry,angry and heres another 3,scavengry,pottingry,hongry.
2007-02-06 06:54:35 · answer #7 · answered by onlyme 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I give in, I can only get angry and hungry
2007-02-06 06:33:07 · answer #8 · answered by norma d 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i can think of 2, angry and hungry
2007-02-06 06:33:03 · answer #9 · answered by catrina 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
MY three words are angry, hungry, and .......jade goody
well she makes people very angry
2007-02-07 14:49:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋