The riddle is:
There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". ONE
is angry and the other is hungry. EveryONE knows
what the third ONE means and what it stands for.
EveryONE uses them everyday, and if you listened
very carefully, I've given you the third word. What
is it? _______gry?
2007-02-07 06:52:26 · 11 answers · asked by flyychyc 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
Language, thats an old one, still good though
2007-02-07 06:57:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The question is a riddle in riddle. The riddle has nothing to do with the letters "gry".
The real anser is three. It is the third word in the riddle. (Read the riddle closley, if you've listend carfully, they gave you the third word). Lame, I know.
It is similar to asking if they have the 4th of July in England? Most people say no assuming that the 4th of July is an Amercian holiday, but in reality the 4th of July comes after the 3rd of July all over the world.
So you don't feel cheated by the riddle, here are some archaic words from the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon & Schuster's Webster's New World Dictionary, and the G.C. Merriam Company :
aggry: A glass bead found buried in the ground in Africa. A word of unknown origin. Seemingly always used attributively, as in aggry beads.
braggry: A variant form of braggery.
conyngry: An obsolete dialectal variant of conyger, itself an obsolete term meaning 'rabbit warren'.
gry: 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. Also the grunt of a pig, an insignificant trifle, or a verb meaning to roar.
iggry: Egyptian colloquial Arabic pronunciation of ijri: 'Hurry up!', brought back after the First World War by members of British and Australian forces who had fought in Egypt.
mawgry: from Old French: being regarded with displeasure.
meagry: Having a meager appearance.
nangry: A variant form of angry.
podagry: Dodder, or the condition of a plant infested with it.
puggry: A variant form of puggree, a light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun.
2007-02-07 15:01:50 · answer #2 · answered by Dan F 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
nice try retard......
this is how it should read:
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.
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
2007-02-07 15:00:52 · answer #3 · answered by Answerman 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
"I am hungry"... three words that end in -gry.
If you'll notice, she left a blank space before gry, so I'm guessing she's not looking for "language" or "three".
2007-02-07 14:59:32 · answer #4 · answered by LGT 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The answer is three. (Your question only asked me for the third word - the third word in the riddle is "three" and yes, you did give it to me.
2007-02-07 14:59:30 · answer #5 · answered by Eric A 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The answer is three.
It is the third word in the question, and the rest of the question is irrelevant: a red herring designed to put the solver off.
...answer via: http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html
2007-02-07 15:03:23 · answer #6 · answered by B T 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
language.
2007-02-07 15:01:49 · answer #7 · answered by KJ480 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Gry?? I have no idea.
2007-02-07 15:03:13 · answer #8 · answered by Doodle 186 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ONEGRY
definition:
a state of being alone and unhappy
2007-02-07 14:55:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
fungry
2007-02-07 14:56:42 · answer #10 · answered by Spaghetti MY 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋