except angry and hungry, whats the other word that ends with gry?

Answer 1

Gry is a word. So is puggry, a scarf worn around the neck in India. So is aggry, a burial bed. You can also see anhungry (old form of hungry) used in plays by Shakespeare.


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Answer 2

affect-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry
aggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry
Agry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry
ahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry
air-hungry gry malgry sex-angry
anhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry
Badagry half-angry managry Shchigry
Ballingry hangry mannagry shiggry
begry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry
bewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry
boroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry
bowgry hogry meagry Sygry
braggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry
Bugry hongry menagry Tchangry
Chockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry
Cogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry
cony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry
conyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry
cottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry
Croftangry hwngry Pingry toggry
diamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry
dog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry
dogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry
Dshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry
Dzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry
eard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry
Echanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry
Egry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry
euer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry
ever-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry
fenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry

Answer 3

Jangry a sweet dish in India,
Meagry - another form of meagre

Answer 4

ANGRY, HUNGRY, GRY

GRY - means anything very small, or of little value.

Answer 5

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The -Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than "angry" and "hungry," that ends with the letters "gry." Aside from words derived from "angry" and "hungry," there is no stand-alone word ending in "gry" that is in current usage. Both Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2002, ISBN 0-87779-201-1) and the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-861186-2) contain the compound word "aggry bead." To find a third word ending in -gry that is not part of a phrase, you must turn to archaic, obsolete, or uncommon words, or personal or place names, a comprehensive list of which is given at the end of this article.

This puzzle has no good answer, yet it has become the most frequently asked word puzzle. The regular readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles have coined the word "nugry" to describe a (presumably) new reader who posts a frequently asked question.

Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Alternate versions
2.1 Trick versions
2.2 Meta-puzzle versions
3 Words and names that end in -gry
3.1 A list of names and words ending in -gry, many of which are obsolete, archaic, or simply uncommon.
3.2 References / Further Reading
3.3 Sources Consulted
4 External link



[edit] History
Merriam-Webster, publishers of the leading American dictionaries, first heard of this puzzle in a letter dated March 17, 1975, from Patricia Lasker of Brooklyn, New York. Lasker says her plant manager heard the question on a quiz show. Since that time Merriam-Webster has received about four letters each year asking the question.

This puzzle first appears in print in Anita Richterman's "Problem Line" column in Newsday on April 29, 1975. One "M.Z." from Wantagh states that the problem was asked on a TV quiz program. Richterman states that she asked a learned professor of English for help when she first received the inquiry, and he did not respond for over a month. So the quiz show probably occurred in March.

In Anita Richterman's column on May 9, 1975, several correspondents reported that they had heard the puzzle on the Bob Grant radio talk show on WMCA in New York City. As this is not a TV quiz show, this may not be the origin of the puzzle. The majority of readers gave the answer "gry," one of the obsolete words listed at the end of this article. It is unclear whether this was the answer given on the Grant show.

Ralph G. Beaman in the "Kickshaws" column in Word Ways for February 1976 reports that the Delaware Valley was mystified during the fall of 1975 by the question. By this time the puzzle seems to have mutated to a form in which the missing word is an adjective that describes the state of the world.

Some people remember a different version of this puzzle dating it back before 1975. For example, someone named "Rush Elkins" emailed the editors of yourDictionary with this report:

I first heard the "gry" riddle posed in slightly different form in 1969 or 1970. I was then in graduate school at University of Florida and in the habit of meeting with a group of friends every Wednesday evening for dinner, drinks, and conversation. One of those evenings, someone challenged the group to find three common English words containing the letter combination "gry." I'm sure that there was no stipulation on the placement of "gry" because I recall someone suggesting that it might occur at the boundary of a compound word. (That turns out to lead nowhere.)
A year or two later, I encountered the word "gryphon" in a book, had one of those aha! experiences, and presented my find at the next meeting as a sort of trophy. Although not exactly an everyday sort of word, "gryphon" appears in most dictionaries and is understood by most literate English readers.
If these memories are accurate, then perhaps in 1975 a subtle flaw was introduced into an otherwise commonplace word puzzle. Instead of asking for three words that contain "gry," the flawed version asks for three words that end in "gry." Presumably the person who asked the question did not know the answer and, in repeating the question, simply misstated it. Since the flawed version has no good answer, an explosion of searching followed.


[edit] Alternate versions

[edit] Trick versions
This version only works when spoken: There are three words in English that end in "gree." The first two are "angry" and "hungry," and if you've listened closely, you'll agree that I've already told you the third one.
The answer is "agree."
There are three words in the English language that end in the letters g-r-y. Two are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third word means, and everyone uses it every day. What is the third word?
The answer is "energy." The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters.
The Ask Marilyn column in Parade magazine on March 9, 1997 featured this spoken version: There are at least three words in the English language that end in g or y. One of them is "hungry," and another one is "angry." There is a third word, a short one, which you probably say every day. If you are listening carefully to everything I say, you just heard me say it three times. What is it?
The answer is "say." This version depends upon the listener confusing the spoken word "or" and the spoken letter r.
There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." Two words that end in "gry" are "hungry" and "angry." Everyone knows what the third word means, and everyone uses them every day. If you listened very carefully, I have already stated to you what the third word is. The three words that solve this riddle are...?
The answer is the three-word sentence "I am hungry." This version asks for three words that end in "gry," not three words each of which end in "gry."
This version is a play on the use-mention ambiguity exploited by other versions: I know two words that end in "gry." Neither one is angry or hungry. What are they?
The answer is "angry" and "hungry." Since these are words, they are not angry or hungry.
Here is a version invented by Frank Rubin on December 4, 2003: Give me three English words, commonly spoken, ending in g-r-y.
There are many possible answers, such as "Beg for mercy," or "Bring your money."
There are three words in the English language that end g-r-y. One is "angry," another is "hungry." The third word is something that "everyone" uses. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
The answer is "every," and the logic is as follows: There are three words, ending g, r, and y. The first is "fuming," ending in g and meaning angry. The second is "eager," ending in r and meaning hungry. The third is "every," ending in y and clearly something that the word "everyone" uses.

[edit] Meta-puzzle versions
The remaining versions are a form of meta-puzzle, in the sense that they make no use of the actual letters "gry" themselves, which therefore are a red herring. The red herring only works because there is another puzzle that does use these letters (even though that puzzle has no good answer).

On March 28, 1996, one such version was broadcast on WHTZ in New York City during "The Elvis Duran Afternoon Show." The person asking the question was a caller who worked in a beauty salon at a mall somewhere in New Jersey: 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 everyday. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
The answer to this version is "language" -- the third word in the phrase "the English language." There are quotation marks needed to make this answer correct when the puzzle is printed, but they give away the trick.
Angry and hungry are two words in the English language that end in "gry." "What" is the third word. The word is something that everyone uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
The answer is "what." But again, the quotation marks spoil the puzzle when it is printed.
There are three words in the English language that end with "gry." Two of these are "angry" and "hungry." The third word is a very common word, and you use it often. If you have read what I have told you, you will see that I have given you the third word. What is the third word? Think very carefully.
The answer is "three," the third word in the paragraph. The rest of the paragraph is a red herring.
This version is usually stated with the word "one" capitalized, which is a hint at the solution: There are three words in the English language that end in "gry." The first ONE is "hungry," the second is "angry," and the third everyONE uses everyday. If you have read this carefully I have given a clue.
The answer is supposedly "one," which is the third "one." Probably because this answer does not make much sense, this version has a variant which contains more instances of the capitalized word "one." The idea is that the capitalized "one" is a hint for the letter a, which when prefixed to the sound "gree" yields the answer word "agree."

[edit] Words and names that end in -gry

[edit] A list of names and words ending in -gry, many of which are obsolete, archaic, or simply uncommon.
References, in brackets, correspond to the bibliography, "Sources Consulted."

affect-hungry [OED (see "sado-masochism")]
aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
agry / Agry:
Agry [OED (see "snappily")]
Agry [GNS]
Agry Dagh (Mount Agry) [EB/11:15:682 (as "Agry-dagh"); Partridge/2 (as "Agry Dagh"); Stieler:49 R18 and Stieler/Index:3 (as "Agry-Dag")]
ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
air-hungry [OED (see "Tel Avivian")]
angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
Badagry [Johnston; EB/11; GNS; OED (see "Dahoman")]
Bagry [GNS]
Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; GNS; RD:164, pl.49]
begry [OED:1:770,767]
Bellangry [GNS]
Beregovyye Langry [GNS]
bewgry [OED:1:1160]
Bol’shiye Tugry (GNS]
"boongry maugry" [Partridge/2] — created by Partridge, for purposes of satire, from bongre maugre, willy-nilly; cf. maugry
boroughmongry [OED (see "boroughmonger")]
bowgry [OED:1:1160]
braggry [OED:1:1047]
Bugry — cf. Chistyye Bugry, Golyye Bugry, Peschanyye Bugry [GNS; Times/IG]
Bungry — see Hungry Bungry
Chagry [GNS]
Changry [GNS]
Chistyye Bugry [GNS]
Chockpugry [Worcester]
Cogry [BBC]
cony-gry [OED:2:956]
conyngry [OED:2:956]
cottagry [OED (see "cottagery")]
croftangry / Croftangry:
croftangry [OED (see "way")]
Croftangry — Mr. Chrystal Croftangry, fictitious editor of The Chronicles of Canongate, by Sir Walter Scott, 1827–28. The Chronicles of Canongate is an inclusive title for Scott's novels, The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers, and The Fair Maid of Perth, to which the author attached the fiction that they were written by Mr. Chrystal Croftangry, who draws on the recollections of his old friend, Mrs. Bethune Baliol, a resident in the Canongate, Edinburgh. Mr. Croftangry's own story, notable among Scott's shorter sketches, forms an introduction to the Chronicles. [Barnhart:1:1134; Freeman/1:101; Freeman/2:109; OCEL/5:241,197,461; Scott:2:234-329; Walsh:110] — "a pseudonym of Sir Walter Scott; the name of the imaginary editor of his "Chronicles of the Canongate." [Wheeler:88]
de Pélegry — see Pélegry
diamond-hungry [OED (see "Lorelei")]
dog-hungry [W2]
dogge-hungry [OED (see "canine")]
Dygry [GNS]
Dshagry [Stieler]
Džagry [Andrees:43 (141 L 7)]
Dzhagry [GNS; OSN/42:2:325; Times/7:61 (44 G8); Times/IG:233 (44 G8)]
eard-hungry [CED (see "yird"); CSD]
Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
Égry [DNCF:376; France(?); GNSl; OSN/83:1:335; Times/IG:239
euer-angry [OED (see "ever")]
ever-angry [W2]
fenegry [OED (see "fenugreek")]
fire-angry [W2]
Gagry — cf. Novyye Gagry [EB/11; GNS]
Garrynagry [GNS]
girl-hungry [OED (see "girl")]
Golyye Bugry [GNS]
gonagry [OED (see "gonagra")]
gry / Gry / GRY:
gry (from Latin gry) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
gry (from Romany grai) [W2]
Gry (given name: Gry Bagøien, alias Gry, a female singer from Denmark) [Wiki]
gry / GRY acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations:
GRY — Granada, Spain (airport symbol) [AIAD:1403]
gry — abbr. gray [ADA]
GRY — Gray Drug Stores, Inc. (New York Stock Exchange delisted symbol) [AIAD:1403]
GRY — abbr. all cap. Grayling Air Service, Grayling, Alaska (TAH [The Airline Handbook] code) [TAH:281]
GRY — abbr. Greymouth, New Zealand (seismograph station code, United States Geological Survey); closed [AIAD:1403; Poppe]
GRY — abbr. Greystoke Exploration (Vancouver Stock Exchange symbol [AIAD:1403]
GRY — abbr. all cap. Grimsey, Iceland (airport symbol) [AIAD:1403; OAG]
haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
half-angry [W2]
hangry [OED:1:329]
heart-angry [W2]
heart-hungry [W2]
higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
hound-hungry [OED (see "hound")]
houngry [OED (see "minx")]
huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
hund-hungry [OED (see "hound")]
hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
Hungry Bungry [DI]
hwngry [OED (see "quart")]
"igry" [Partridge/2] — from "... igry slov of the Slavs." — created by Partridge for purposes of satire
iggry [OED]
Jagry [EB/11:23-874 (II. D4)]
job-hungry [OED (see "gadget")]
Kagry [GNS]
kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
Kiegry [GNS]
land-hungry [OED; W2]
Langry — cf. Beregovyye Langry, Novyye Langry [GNS; Times/7; Times/IG]
leather-hungry [OED]
ledderhungry [OED (see "leather")]
life-hungry [OED (see "music")]
Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489; GNS]
Longry [GNS]
losengry [OED (see "losengery")]
MacLoingry — surname, of Irish origin; e.g., Flaithbhertach MacLoingry, bishop of Clonmacnois (1038) [Cotton, Phillips:613]
mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
malgry [OED:6/2:247]
Malyye Tugry [GNS]
man-hungry [OED]
managry [OED (see "managery")]
mannagry [OED (see "managery")]
Margry [Indians (see "Pierre Margry" in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
meagry [OED:6/2:267]
meat-hungry [W2; OED (see "meat")]
Megry [GNS]
menagry [OED (see "managery")]
messagry [OED]
music-hungry [OED (see "music")]
Myagry [GNS]
nangry [OED]
Novyye Gagry [GNS]
Novyye Langry [GNS]
"nugry" / Nugry:
"nugry" — regular readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles coined this word to describe a (presumably) new reader who posts a frequently asked question
Nugry [GNS]
overangry [RH1; RH2]
Pélegry [CE (in main index as "Raymond de Pélegry")]
Peschanyye Bugry [GNS]
Peshungry [GNS]
pigry — see higry pigry
Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
Podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
Povengry [GNS]
power-hungry [OED (see "power")]
profit-hungry [OED (see "profit")]
puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
red-angry [OED (see "sanguineous")]
rungry [EDD:5:188]
scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
Schtschigry [GNS; LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
Seagry — cf. Upper Seagry [EB/11:28:698a; GNS; Times/IG:762]
Ségry [Andrees:152 (87/88 B 3); GNS; Johnston]
self-angry [W2]
selfe-angry [OED (see "self-")]
Semibugry [GNS]
sensation-hungry [OED (see "sensation")]
sex-angry [OED (see "sex")]
sex-hungry [OED (see "cave")]
Shchegry [GNS]
Shchigry [CLG:1747; GNS; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times/7:185,pl.45]
shiggry [EDD]
Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
Shtshigry [Lipp]
sight-hungry [OED (see "sight")]
Sillegry [GNS]
skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
Skugry [GNS]
Ssemibugry [GNS]
Suchigry [GNS]
Sygry [Andree]
Tangry [France; GNS]
Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
Tchigry [Johnson:594]
tear-angry [W2]
th'angry [OED (see "shot-free")]
tike-hungry [CSD]
tingry / Tingry:
tingry [OED (see "parquet")]
Tingry [France; EB/11 (under "Princesse de Tingry"); GNS]
toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry"; but all entries are capitalized)]
Tugry — cf. Bol’shiye Tugry, Malyye Tugry [GNS]
"ugry" / Ugry:
"ugry" [Partridge/2] — from "... white ugry of history." — created by Partridge for purposes of satire — probably a reference to "Ugri Bielii, tribe : see Khazars, race." [EB/11:15:774b, 23:525a, 23:883d]
Ugry [GNS]
ulgry — modern form of Vlgrie (word form not actually found, but the existence of which is inferred), an animal (not specifically identified): "a coat made of ulgry's hair...." [Partridge/1 (as "ulgry"); Scheetz (as "ulgry" and "Vlgrie"); Smith:24-25 (as "Vlgrie" and "Vlgries")]
unangry [OED; W2]
Ungry [GNS]
Upper Seagry [GNS]
vergry [OED:12/1:123]
Vigry [CLG:2090]
vngry [OED (see "wretch")]
Wągry [GNS]
war-hungry [OED (see "war")]
Wegry:
Wegry [GNS]
Węgry [GNS]
WGRY — all cap. call letters of a radio station in Grayling, Michigan. [...]
Wigry [CLG:2090; GNS; NAP:xxxix; Times/7:220, pl.62; WA:948]
wind-hungry [W2]
Yagry [GNS]
yeard-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
yerd-hungry [CED (see "yird"); OED]
yird-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]
Zygry [GNS]