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2007-08-16 04:08:02 · 14 answers · asked by Mzonjani K 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

14 answers

here's a lengthy analysis of the answer to your question about what words end with "gry"...

http://www.angelfire.com/az/rajdev1/The_Answer.html

Hope it helps!

2007-08-16 04:49:02 · answer #1 · answered by blueskies 7 · 1 1

Apart from 'angry' and 'hungry', There are several other English words ending in -gry which are listed in the complete Oxford English Dictionary, but none of them could be described as common. They include the trivial oddities un-angry and a-hungry, and


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!).

2007-08-16 12:29:20 · answer #2 · answered by shweta 2 · 0 0

Hungry, angry are all I can think of.

2007-08-16 11:16:10 · answer #3 · answered by Sharon Newman (YR) Must Die 7 · 0 1

Hungry and angry. I cant think of anything else.

2007-08-16 11:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by John M 3 · 0 2

I can only think of angry.

2007-08-16 22:26:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Angry, hungry, and a third one I can't remember.

2007-08-16 11:13:44 · answer #6 · answered by Expat Mike 7 · 0 2

All i can think of is hungry, and angry

2007-08-16 11:21:16 · answer #7 · answered by jess. <3 3 · 0 2

I was gonna say "angry", but Mike already said it.

~Cindy! :)

2007-08-16 11:15:57 · answer #8 · answered by ♛ CindyBradyTooh ♛ 7 · 0 2

scavengry

2007-08-16 11:44:33 · answer #9 · answered by lillllbit 6 · 0 2

angry, and hungry

2007-08-16 11:40:50 · answer #10 · answered by luvs_2danc 2 · 0 2

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