What are the three words in the English language that end in ....gry?
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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.\nThe answer is language.\nIt is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996. \n\nThere 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?\nThe answer is energy.\nThe question asks for a word ending with the three letters g-r-y, but does not stipulate that they must be in that order. \n\nThis is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:\n\n\naffect-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry \naggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry \nAgry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry \nahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry \nair-hungry gry malgry sex-angry \nanhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry \nBadagry half-angry managry Shchigry \nBallingry hangry mannagry shiggry \nbegry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry \nbewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry \nboroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry \nbowgry hogry meagry Sygry \nbraggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry \nBugry hongry menagry Tchangry \nChockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry \nCogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry \ncony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry \nconyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry \ncottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry \nCroftangry hwngry Pingry toggry \ndiamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry \ndog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry \ndogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry \nDshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry \nDzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry \neard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry \nEchanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry \nEgry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry \neuer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry \never-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry \nfenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry
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Gry\n\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nFor other uses, see Gry (disambiguation).\nThe -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 phrase "aggry bead." To find a third word ending in "gry" that is not part of a phrase, you must turn to obsolete words or personal or place names. A list of 130 of these is given at the end of this article.\n\n\n\n\nThis 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.\n\nbraggry
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This is an old riddle that's been messed up. The answer to the original riddle is "language", but the way that it's been told has been screwed up. \n\n"There are three words in the English language." is how it should start. Then the "gry" comes into play as a 'red herring' to throw you off. Everyone uses language everyday, and it's the third word in "the English language".\n\nHope this helps.
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More words other than angry and hungry ending with gry.\n\nPuggry\nn. 1. A light scarf wound around a hat or helmet to protect the head from the sun.\nA blue-gray felt hat with a gold puggaree.\n- Kipling.\n\nAggry\na. 1. Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.\n\nBadagry \nBadagry is a coastal town in South West Nigeria, lying between Lagos and the border with Benin.\n\n\nThe possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:\n\naffect-hungry, fire-angry, MacLoingry, Seagry, \naggry, Gagry, mad-angry, self-angry, \nAgry, girl-hungry, mad-hungry, selfe-angry, \nahungry, gonagry, magry, sensation-hungry, \nair-hungry, gry, malgry, sex-angry, \nanhungry, haegry, man-hungry, sex-hungry, \nBadagry, half-angry, managry, Shchigry, \nBallingry, hangry, mannagry, shiggry,\nbegry, heart-angry, Margry Shtchigry, \nbewgry, heart-hungry, maugry sight-hungry, \nboroughmongry, higry, pigry, mawgry, skugry, \nbowgry, hogry, meagry, Sygry, \nbraggry, hogrymogry, meat-hungry, Tangry, \nBugry, hongry, menagry, Tchangry, \nChockpugry, hound-hungry, messagry, Tchigry, \nCogry, houngry, music-hungry, tear-angry, \ncony-gry, huggrymuggry, nangry, th'angry, \nconyngry, hund-hungry, overangry, tike-hungry, \ncottagry, Hungry, Bungry, Pelegry, Tingry, \nCroftangry, hwngry, Pingry, toggry, \ndiamond-hungry, iggry, Podagry, ulgry, \ndog-hungry, Jagry, Pongry, unangry, \ndogge-hungry, job-hungry, pottingry, vergry, \nDshagry, kaingry, power-hungry, Vigry, \nDzagry, land-hungry, profit-hungry, vngry, \neard-hungry, Langry, puggry, war-hungry, \nEchanuggry, leather-hungry, pugry, Wigry, \nEgry, ledderhungry, red-angry, wind-hungry, \neuer-angry, life-hungry, rungry, yeard-hungry, \never-angry, Lisnagry, scavengry, yird-hungry, \nfenegry, losengry, Schtschigry, Ymagry\nhttp://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_hungry.html\nSource(s):\nhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/Puggry\nhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/aggry\nhttp://dict.die.net/puggry/\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Puggry\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=aggry\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/aggry?method=22\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/badagry?method=8
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Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:\n\naffect-hungry\nfire-angry\nMacLoingry\nSeagry\naggry\nGagry\nmad-angry\nself-angry\nAgry\ngirl-hungry\nmad-hungry\nselfe-angry\nahungry\ngonagry\nmagry\nsensation-hungry\nair-hungry\ngrymalgry\nsex-angry\nanhungry\nhaegry\nman-hungry\nsex-hungry\nBadagry\nhalf-angry\nmanagry\nShchigry\nBallingry\nhangry\nmannagry\nshiggry\nbegry\nheart-angry\nMargry\nShtchigry\nbewgry\nheart-hungry\nmaugry\nsight-hungry\nboroughmongry\nhigry\npigry\nmawgry\nskugry\n\n\nDammit there's a lot more...
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"aggry," meaning a type of prehistoric bead.\nBUT\nYou asked the riddle wrong dummy:\nAngry and hungry are two words that end in '-gry'. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it? \n\nthe answer to that, is "language."
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gry\n\nGry &#92;Gry&#92;, n. [Gr ? syllable, bit.] 1. A measure equal to one tenth of a line. [Obs.] --Locke.\n\n2. Anything very small, or of little value. [R.]\n____________________________________________________\n\nI think the puzzle actually goes like this:\n<puzzle> "Angry" and "hungry" are two words that end in "gry".\nThere are three words in the English language. What is the\nthird word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it\nevery day. Look closely and I have already given you the\nthird word. What is it?\n\nAnswer: "language".
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. 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.\n\nThe answer is language.\nIt is the third word of "the English language". The question needs to be spoken, otherwise the quotation marks give away the trick. This version apparently originated in 1996.\n2. "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.\n\nThe answer is what.\nThe question states that "what" is the third word, then it asks for the third word. Again this version needs to be spoken to be effective.\n3. 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 told you the third one.\n\nThe answer is agree.\nIt is a phonetic version of the riddle, asking for words that end in the sound "gree," but tricks people into thinking about the letters g-r-y by giving the two examples.\n4. 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?\n\nThe answer is energy.\nThe question asks for a word ending with the three letters g-r-y, but does not stipulate that they must be in that order.\n5. 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?\n\nThe answer is say.\nThe question must be said in such a way that the word "or" sounds like the letter "r". Once more, to be effective it is crucial that this version is spoken rather than printed. This version is first known to have appeared in 1997.\n6. 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. What are the three words that solve this riddle?\n\nThe answer is I am hungry.\nThe question asks for three words that end in "-gry", but does not say that they each must end in "-gry."\n7. 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 every day. And if you listened carefully I've given you the third word, what is it?\n\nThe answer is three.\nIt is the third word in the question, and the rest of the question is irrelevant: a red herring designed to put the solver off.\n8. There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in "-gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it?\n\nThis is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:
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This is a rather common question.\n\nIn contemporary English there are only two words which end in -gry. They are 'hungry' and 'angry'.\n\nThere is a popular, but misleading riddle that circulates around the internet that suggests that there is a third -gry word, but there isn't, not one that is in common use anyway. In archaic forms of English (Middle English and Olde English) there are other words that end with -gry, such as 'meagry', meaning 'meagre-looking', but this is obsolete and not a true answer to the puzzle.\n\nThe riddle states something usually along the lines of: \n"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?"\nThe riddle is not saying there are three words ending in -gry. It is saying that there are three words the English language, which means the answer is 'language'...the third word in the phrase 'the English language'. Tricky, isn't it? That seems to be the most appropriate answer that I accept, anyway. \n\nAnother theory is that 'agree' may be accepted because if the riddle is said aloud, it rhymes with 'hungry' and 'angry'...but I find this really dubious.\n\nBasically, there is no correct answer to this puzzle, and there are only two -gry words, not three!\n\nThe webpage below gives a whole bunch of other explanations. I hope all that helps clear this up for you. Good luck :)
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The answer is:\nIn its proper, original form, the first two sentences have absolutely nothing to do with the question: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." Ignore those two sentences. They are there only to throw you off course. (And it worked, didn't it?) What's left is the actual riddle itself: "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."\nThe key is the phrase "the English language." In this three-word phrase, the third word is simply the word "language." Get it? "Language" is definitely something that "everyone uses every day"! Without that quirky little twist, the puzzle would be just another trivia question, not a riddle.
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angry\norgy\nhungry\n\nbut also, less well known but in the Oxford English Dictionary...\n\npuggry\nonegry\nunangry\naggry
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Actually, many words end in -gry, including gry itself, although all but angry and hungry are rare, foreign, obscure or obsolete.The most common "answers" are aggry, a burial bead from Ghana, puggry, a scarf worn around the neck in India to protect the head from the sun, and anhungry, an obsolete form of hungry that was used once in one of Shakespeare's less-popular plays (Coriolanus, Act I, Scene I, line 209); this association with the Bard is enough to earn it a place in Merriam-Webster's Third New International (unabridged)Dictionary of the English Language. \n"But that can't be the answer," you groan. No. It's not. There is no answer. \nThe puzzle is WRONG. "It's a fraud, it's a fake," says Will Shortz, who is the puzzle editor of the New York Times and the host of a puzzle segment on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition (NPR, 11/10/96). The actual truth is that \nNO other common English word ends in -gry! It's a trick question -- and the trick, at least in some versions, has been lost. Word-puzzle fans and reference librarians have been trying for years to track the question's history to find the original answer. But to do that we need to know what the original question was. And there are several different versions in circulation purporting to be the original. \n\n\n\nA very early version, found in an old book by a member of the Stumpers list, goes like this: \n\n"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." \nThe next page of the book gave this answer: \n\n"Three, the question has nothing to do with angry, hungry, or any of the many other obscure words that end in 'gry', it is a simple question asking you what the third word in the sentence is. As you take tests, remember this."\n\nThe full text of the e-mail containing this version is quoted at the bottom of this page. \nAs asked on the Bob Grant radio show (New York City) in 1975, which many experts believe to be the earliest documented version, it went: \n\n"There are only 3 words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in -gry. Two are angry and hungry; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it?"\n(Several sources say this was "taken from an old book", which leaves open the question of whether it was from the same book referred to in the e-mail above, or whether there were already multiple forms of the puzzle going around.) \nAccording to Ross Eckler of Word Ways magazine, while there are "nearly one hundred" words ending in -gry, none of them are common. But only one of them (besides angry and hungry) is an adjective, and that is meagry, a word found in the Oxford English Dictionary which means "meager." So meagry would seem to answer the question, at least in this form. \n\nYet another version that many believe is the original, "right" form of the question, goes thus: \n\n"Two words that end in -gry are 'angry' and 'hungry'. There are three \nwords in the English language. What is the third word? It's a common word \nthat everyone knows."\nIn this case, the answer is the third word in the phrase "the English language", i.e. "language"! The part about "angry and hungry" turns out to be a red herring. (from COPYEDITING-L list and the rec.puzzles Usenet newsgroup's FAQ) People who don't know the trick to this puzzle, by changing the wording when they pass the question along, have mangled the question until there is no real answer! Most people now seem to accept this as the "real" answer. \nA similar suggestion (from Charles Wiedemann of Hackettstown, NJ, p
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winter \nfall \nspring \nsummer \n\nhot \nrainy\ncloudy \nfog
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The REAL question reads:\n"Angry and hungry are two words that end in '-gry'. There are three words in the English language. What is the third word? Everyone knows what it means and everyone uses it every day. Look closely and I have already given you the third word. What is it?"`\n\nOver time, this riddle has been distorted from a simple riddle to a word challenge. Besides Angry and Hungry, other English words that qualify are iggry, mawgry, and aggry- not common or even current English.\n\nWithout the rest of the riddle, there IS NO GOOD ANSWER!\n\nHowever, if you treat it like the riddle it is, the answer is simple, obvious, and satisfying.\n\nClue: The first sentence is a red herring- ignore it.\n\nFor the 'right' solution, try one of the links below.
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This would have driven me crazy EXCEPT that you wrote it wrong, whoever posted this! this is how it REALLY GOES!!!!! \n\nThink of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two. 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. \n\nAn the answer well thats an easy one......the first 2 sentences are obsolete, the 3rd word in THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE is LANGUAGE! thats the correct VERSION of this riddle! GET IT RIGHT. I copy this from another page!
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The answer is "language" but this person stated the riddle wrong. It suppose to go like this: \n\nThink 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.\n\nAnd what the riddle is asking is the 3rd word in 'The English language' which is language
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that depends:\none answer is :\n\nThere are three words in the English language that end with "gry." One is hungry and the other is angry. What is the third word?\nf you read the second sentence you see that the "third" word is "hungry". \n\nanother answer is: \nAside from "angry" and "hungry" and words derived therefrom, 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 and the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition contain the phrase "aggry bead." To find a third word ending in "gry" that is not part of a phrase, you must turn to obsolete words or personal or place names. A list of 130 of these is given at the end of this article.