What r the 3 words in the english lanquage that end in -gry?

Question

angry, hungry, and what is the 3rd?

Answer 1

You can blame the internet for the fiasco that this riddle has become. The correct question is:

Thinking of words that end in -gry, angry and hungry are two of them. There are three words in the English language, what is the third word?

Some versions go on to say that if you look closely you will see that I have already given you the word.

Look at the question closely. At no stage does it say there are three words ending in -gry nor does it ask you for a third word ending in -gry. It says there are three words in "the English language" and asks for the third word. The answer is "language".

It is a riddle, a trick, but it needs to be worded correctly.

There are, in fact, many other words that end in -gry but all of them are obscure. Gry, aggry, puggry and anhungry are four of them

Answer 2

There is no third word ending in -gry.

Once upon a time, someone constructed this riddle:
"There are some words that end in -gry; angry and hungry are two of them. What is the third word in the English language?"

Notice that the two sentences do not actually refer to each other and are related only by proximity. That is the riddle: you eventually figure out that the question is not asking about words that end in -gry, and that the only meaningful interpretation is to name the third word in "the English language", which of course is "language".

At some point, someone who was not so clever heard the question (and couldn't understand it) and the answer, and decided to pass himself off as an intellect by horribly misphrasing the question like this:

"There are three words in the English language that end in -gry; angry and hungry are two of them. What is the third?"

This kind of error is referred to as a "secret yet"; search for that to find the history.

Answer 3

aggry, a glass bead found buried in the earth in Ghana.
puggry, a light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the
head from the sun, and
meagry, of meager appearance.
mawgry -- from Old French: being regarded with displeasure.
gry - "the grunt of a pig, the dirt under the nail; hence the veriest trifle," further explained as "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."), citing OED, also in Walker’s Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language and Funk and Wagnall’s New Standard Dictionary.

Answer 4

Okay, now that one has bugged me since the 1980's. I refuse to "look it up", but I'd be happy to find out here :-)

Truth is, I don't think there is a third....

Answer 5

angry, hungry, augry

Answer 6

What is the third word...