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This is going to make you so MAD! 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? Send this to 5 People and the

2007-03-15 22:01:20 · 9 answers · asked by Baby Boo 2 in Entertainment & Music Jokes & Riddles

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2007-03-15 22:08:09 · answer #1 · answered by Dowland 5 · 1 0

The puzzle is essentially this: There are three English words ending in "-gry". Two are "angry" and "hungry". What is the third one?

There is no other common word ending in "-gry", so how did the puzzle come about? It first appeared in print in 1975.

Perhaps the answer to the original version of the puzzle was meagry or aggry (as in "aggry bead"). There are over 100 obsolete words that end in "-gry", and these two were in use until fairly recently. However, since there is no longer a real answer to this, modern versions of the puzzle have turned from being puzzles to being riddles. There are perhaps as many as a dozen versions in circulation - each with a different answer.

2007-03-16 05:11:19 · answer #2 · answered by DJ Lex 2 · 0 0

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".

2007-03-16 05:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by girl23 5 · 0 0

aggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa.

begry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty).

conyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren').

gry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

higry-pigry: a corruption (along with 'hickery-pickery' and 'hicra picra') of the Greek 'hiera picra' (approximately 'sacred bitters'), a term for many medicines in the Greek pharmacopoeia, particularly a purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark.

iggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!"

meagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.'

menagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.'

nangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.'

podagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.'

puggry: a 19th-century alternate spelling of 'puggaree' or 'puggree,' derived from the Hindi 'pagri,' a word for a light turban or head covering worn in India.

skugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.'

2007-03-16 05:06:22 · answer #4 · answered by Mindy T 2 · 0 0

Up the road from me is a town called Ballingry.

2007-03-16 05:07:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

language

2007-03-16 05:17:40 · answer #6 · answered by latinchic 1 · 0 0

wow, the first one gave u whole lot while u said there were only three,so what do u have to say now?

i admit i didn't know the answer.i was going to say the country Hungary!

2007-03-16 05:08:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

haha i gt it. ther are 3 words in 'the english language' the third word = language.
I think? or have i got th completely wrong?

2007-03-16 05:13:40 · answer #8 · answered by Hel 1 · 0 1

LANGUAGE...and pls DONT post this riddle again...m sick of seeing this here every other day.

2007-03-16 05:12:14 · answer #9 · answered by clairvoyance 3 · 0 0

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