There are 3 English words that ends with -gry. they are hungry, angry and what???
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There is no other word!\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/gry.html\n\n\nGRRRRR . . . I mean -gry.\n\nA question frequently asked of reference librarians, word mavens, etc., is\n\n    "There are three words in the English language that\n    end in -gry. One is hungry and one is angry;\n    what is the third?"\n\nHere is a picture of a reference librarian who has heard this question one time too many:\n\n(Not really. Click on the painting to find out more about the artist.)\n\nActually, 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\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."\n\n    The 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.\n\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\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.)\n\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\n    words in the English language. What is the third word? It's a common word\n    that everyone knows."\n\nIn this case, the answer is the third word in the phras
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alright... whats the word u want the answer to this riddle to be? Hunger! yay 2 points for answering a question lol, sry, but thats a tricky one
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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.
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The answer is sometimes given as "language," because "language" is the third word in the phrase "the English language." Two of the sentences thus have absolutely nothing to do with the question: "Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them." They are there only to throw you off course. 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." The first two sentences are just a red herring. But many people hear or read the question and assume it is referring to the first sentence. \n\nalso angry, hungry, aggry and puggry are in the dictionary but are not common words.
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I typed "*gry" into my Franklin Merriam-WEbster dictionary and thesaurus, and the only two words it found are the two you have mentioned.\n\nThis is frustrating! maybe is it an acronym... __GRY?\n\n......\n(After reading responses...))\noooo tricky tricky!!
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angry, hungry, the only two i can think of
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Rag, Rage, Raged, Dare, Red, Grade, Are, Age, Aged,
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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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http://www.snopes.com/language/puzzlers/gry.asp\n\nThere is no answer to the way you phrased the question.\n\nOrigins:   This  puzzler may indeed "KILL YOUR BRAIN!" and "make you so MAD!" -- it certainly has left plenty of victims racking their brains and scratching their heads in decades past. If you don't already know the answer to this one, let us help you preserve your sanity and whatever gray matter you may have left by telling you . . . there is no answer. Other than 'hungry' and 'angry,' there is no English word ending with the letters 'gry' which the average native speaker of English would recognize, much less "use every day" (and certainly none which a teller of this riddle could claim to have "already given you"). \n\nAll other words ending in 'gry' which one might find in even the most comprehensive English dictionary are either archaic terms or obsolete variant spellings, such as: \n\n\naggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa. \n\nbegry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty). \n\nconyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren'). \n\ngry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding." \n\nhigry-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. \n\niggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!" \n\nmeagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.' \n\nmenagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.' \n\nnangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.' \n\npodagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.' \n\npuggry: 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. \n\nskugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.' \nSo, what's the point to this puzzler if it has no answer? Some people maintain that is the point: the question was deliberately conceived as an irritating brain-teaser with no correct answer. The roundabout phrasing of the question suggests otherwise, however -- more likely it was designed as a trick question rather than a trivia question, perhaps one whose wording has been corrupted over time or whose gimmick was only apparent when the question was delivered orally. \n\nThe most common guess is that this riddle is indeed a trick question, but the point of the trick has been lost through the rearrangement of the riddle's wording as it has been passed along through the years. Consider an alternate version of this puzzler: \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. \nThis version supports the theory that the first two sentences are red herrings; the catch is that the teller is literally asking you to identify the third word of the phrase "the English language" -- there are only three words in the phrase "the English language," the third word ("language") describes something that one uses ever
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Here's the riddle:  "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\nAnswer:  Here is the quesiton. "There are three words in the English language.  What is the third word?"  The third word is "language".
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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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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. \n\nThe answer is "agree." The object is to make the listener think about the letters g-r-y instead of the sound "gree."
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Hi there, it was Green and the  word was Eat... hope this helps... did you by any chance have Tuesdays.. that flew past me!! :(
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This  \npuzzler may indeed "KILL YOUR BRAIN!" and "make you so MAD!" -- it certainly has left plenty of victims racking their brains and scratching their heads in decades past. If you don't already know the answer to this one, let us help you preserve your sanity and whatever gray matter you may have left by telling you . . . there is no answer. Other than 'hungry' and 'angry,' there is no English word ending with the letters 'gry' which the average native speaker of English would recognize, much less "use every day" (and certainly none which a teller of this riddle could claim to have "already given you"). \n\nAll other words ending in 'gry' which one might find in even the most comprehensive English dictionary are either archaic terms or obsolete variant spellings, such as: \n\n\naggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa. \n\nbegry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty). \n\nconyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren'). \n\ngry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding." \n\nhigry-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. \n\niggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!" \n\nmeagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.' \n\nmenagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.' \n\nnangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.' \n\npodagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.' \n\npuggry: 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. \n\nskugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.' \nSo, what's the point to this puzzler if it has no answer? Some people maintain that is the point: the question was deliberately conceived as an irritating brain-teaser with no correct answer. The roundabout phrasing of the question suggests otherwise, however -- more likely it was designed as a trick question rather than a trivia question, perhaps one whose wording has been corrupted over time or whose gimmick was only apparent when the question was delivered orally. \n\nThe most common guess is that this riddle is indeed a trick question, but the point of the trick has been lost through the rearrangement of the riddle's wording as it has been passed along through the years. Consider an alternate version of this puzzler: \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. \nThis version supports the theory that the first two sentences are red herrings; the catch is that the teller is literally asking you to identify the third word of the phrase "the English language" -- there are only three words in the phrase "the English language," the third word ("language") describes something that one uses every day, and "language" is indeed a word which the teller has "already told you." This explanation al
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Meagry.\n\nHonestly, I do wish people would learn to search before asking. I swear this question has been asked at least a dozen times a week in various forms.\n\nThe original riddle is something along the lines of: "Angry and hungry both end in the letters -gry. What is the third word in the English language?" The answer, of course is 'language', with the first and second words being 'the' and 'English', respectively. Without that context, the query is meaningless as there are quite a few obscure and obsolete words in English that end with -gry.