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A riddle?

me!! ernz Asked by ermical about 1 year ago, 5 answers.

A riddle that will kill your brain:

There are only three words in the English language that ends in gry. One is ANGRY and the other one is HUNGRY. Everyone knows what the third one means and what it stands for. Everyone uses them everyday and if you...

listen to me carefully, I've given you the third word already.

What is it? _ _ _ gry!

Shark Atack Answered by funadvice on Oct 25, 2008, 02:47AM
53985 answers

'Three'. The question never asks for the third word ending in 'gry'. I've given you the third word. What is it' The third word of the statement is 'three'.

Shark Atack Answered by funadvice on Oct 25, 2008, 02:50AM
53985 answers

Wait! I reread it its

Onegry

Getting ready for the party Answered by melissab on Oct 25, 2008, 06:27AM
96 answers

There is no good answer to this riddle.

But my answer is 'the third one'

Getting ready for the party Answered by melissab on Oct 26, 2008, 06:18AM
96 answers

According to Wikipedia here is a list of words ending in gry:

A list of names and words ending in -gry, many of which are obsolete, archaic, or simply uncommon.

1. affect-hungry [OED (see sado-masochism)]
2. aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
3. agry / Agry:
1. Agry [OED (see snappily)]
2. Agry [GNS]
3. 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)]
4. ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
5. air-hungry [OED (see Tel Avivian)]
6. angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
7. anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
8. Badagry [Johnston; EB/11; GNS; OED (see Dahoman)]
9. Bagry [GNS]
10. Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; GNS; RD:164, pl.49]
11. begry [OED:1:770,767]
12. Bellangry [GNS]
13. Beregovyye Langry [GNS]
14. bewgry [OED:1:1160]
15. Bol’shiye Tugry (GNS]
16. boongry maugry [Partridge/2] — created by Partridge, for purposes of satire, from bongre maugre, willy-nilly; cf. maugry
17. boroughmongry [OED (see boroughmonger)]
18. bowgry [OED:1:1160]
19. braggry [OED:1:1047]
20. Bugry — cf. Chistyye Bugry, Golyye Bugry, Peschanyye Bugry [GNS; Times/IG]
21. Bungry — see Hungry Bungry
22. Chagry [GNS]
23. Changry [GNS]
24. Chistyye Bugry [GNS]
25. Chockpugry [Worcester]
26. Cogry [BBC]
27. cony-gry [OED:2:956]
28. conyngry [OED:2:956]
29. cottagry [OED (see cottagery)]
30. croftangry / Croftangry:
1. croftangry [OED (see way)]
2. 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]
31. culture-hungry [OED (see culture)
32. de Pélegry — see Pélegry
33. diamond-hungry [OED (see Lorelei)]
34. dog-hungry [W2]
35. dogge-hungry [OED (see canine)]
36. Dygry [GNS]
37. Dshagry [Stieler]
38. Džagry [Andrees:43 (141 L 7)]
39. Dzhagry [GNS; OSN/42:2:325; Times/7:61 (44 G8); Times/IG:233 (44 G8)]
40. eard-hungry [CED (see yird); CSD]
41. Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
42. Égry [DNCF:376; France(?); GNSl; OSN/83:1:335; Times/IG:239
43. euer-angry [OED (see ever)]
44. ever-angry [W2]
45. fenegry [OED (see fenugreek)]
46. fire-angry [W2]
47. Gagry — cf. Novyye Gagry [EB/11; GNS]
48. Garrynagry [GNS]
49. girl-hungry [OED (see girl)]
50. Golyye Bugry [GNS]
51. gonagry [OED (see gonagra)]
52. gry / Gry / GRY:
1. gry (from Latin gry) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
2. gry (from Romany grai) [W2]
3. Gry (given name: Gry Bagøien, alias Gry, a female singer from Denmark) [Wiki]
4. gry / GRY acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations:
1. GRY — Granada, Spain (airport symbol) [AIAD:1403]
2. gry — abbr. gray [ADA]
3. GRY — Gray Drug Stores, Inc. (New York Stock Exchange delisted symbol) [AIAD:1403]
4. GRY — abbr. all cap. Grayling Air Service, Grayling, Alaska (TAH [The Airline Handbook] code) [TAH:281]
5. GRY — abbr. Greymouth, New Zealand (seismograph station code, United States Geological Survey); closed [AIAD:1403; Poppe]
6. GRY — abbr. Greystoke Exploration (Vancouver Stock Exchange symbol [AIAD:1403]
7. GRY — abbr. all cap. Grimsey, Iceland (airport symbol) [AIAD:1403; OAG]
53. haegry [EDD (see hagery)]
54. half-angry [W2]
55. hangry [OED:1:329]
56. heart-angry [W2]
57. heart-hungry [W2]
58. higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
59. hogry [EDD (see huggerie); CSD]
60. hogrymogry [EDD (see huggerie); CSD (as hogry-mogry)]
61. hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
62. hound-hungry [OED (see hound)]
63. houngry [OED (see minx)]
64. huggrymuggry [EDD (see huggerie); CSD (as huggry-muggry)]
65. hund-hungry [OED (see hound)]
66. hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
67. Hungry Bungry [DI]
68. hwngry [OED (see quart)]
69. igry [Partridge/2] — from ... igry slov of the Slavs. — created by Partridge for purposes of satire
70. iggry [OED]
71. Jagry [EB/11:23-874 (II. D4)]
72. jingry [OED] — additional source needed; not found in full-text search of OED Online
73. job-hungry [OED (see gadget)]
74. Kagry [GNS]
75. kaingry [EDD (see caingy)]
76. Kiegry [GNS]
77. land-hungry [OED; W2]
78. Langry — cf. Beregovyye Langry, Novyye Langry [GNS; Times/7; Times/IG]
79. leather-hungry [OED]
80. ledderhungry [OED (see leather)]
81. life-hungry [OED (see music)]
82. Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489; GNS]
83. Longry [GNS]
84. losengry [OED (see losengery)]
85. MacLoingry — surname, of Irish origin; e.g., Flaithbhertach MacLoingry, bishop of Clonmacnois (1038) [Cotton, Phillips:613]
86. mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
87. mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
88. magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
89. malgry [OED:6/2:247]
90. Malyye Tugry [GNS]
91. man-hungry [OED]
92. managry [OED (see managery)]
93. mannagry [OED (see managery)]
94. Margry [Indians (see Pierre Margry in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
95. maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
96. mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
97. meagry [OED:6/2:267]
98. meat-hungry [W2; OED (see meat)]
99. Megry [GNS]
100. menagry [OED (see managery)]
101. messagry [OED]
102. music-hungry [OED (see music)]
103. Myagry [GNS]
104. nangry [OED]
105. Novyye Gagry [GNS]
106. Novyye Langry [GNS]
107. nugry / Nugry:
1. nugry — regular readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles coined this word to describe a (presumably) new reader who posts a frequently asked question
2. Nugry [GNS]
108. overangry [RH1; RH2]
109. Pélegry [CE (in main index as Raymond de Pélegry)]
110. Peschanyye Bugry [GNS]
111. Peshungry [GNS]
112. pigry — see higry pigry
113. Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
114. Podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
115. Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
116. pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
117. Povengry [GNS]
118. power-hungry [OED (see power)]
119. profit-hungry [OED (see profit)]
120. puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
121. pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
122. red-angry [OED (see sanguineous)]
123. rungry [EDD:5:188]
124. scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under scavengery)]
125. Schtschigry [GNS; LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
126. Seagry — cf. Upper Seagry [EB/11:28:698a; GNS; Times/IG:762]
127. Ségry [Andrees:152 (87/88 B 3); GNS; Johnston]
128. self-angry [W2]
129. selfe-angry [OED (see self-)]
130. Semibugry [GNS]
131. sensation-hungry [OED (see sensation)]
132. sex-angry [OED (see sex)]
133. sex-hungry [OED (see cave)]
134. Shchegry [GNS]
135. Shchigry [CLG:1747; GNS; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times/7:185,pl.45]
136. shiggry [EDD]
137. Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
138. Shtshigry [Lipp]
139. sight-hungry [OED (see sight)]
140. Sillegry [GNS]
141. skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
142. Skugry [GNS]
143. Ssemibugry [GNS]
144. Suchigry [GNS]
145. Sygry [Andree]
146. Tangry [France; GNS]
147. Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
148. Tchigry [Johnson:594]
149. tear-angry [W2]
150. th'angry [OED (see shot-free)]
151. tike-hungry [CSD]
152. tingry / Tingry:
1. tingry [OED (see parquet)]
2. Tingry [France; EB/11 (under Princesse de Tingry); GNS]
153. toggry [Simmonds (as Toggry; but all entries are capitalized)]
154. Tugry — cf. Bol’shiye Tugry, Malyye Tugry [GNS]
155. ugry / Ugry:
1. 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]
2. Ugry [GNS]
156. 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)]
157. unangry [OED; W2]
158. Ungry [GNS]
159. Upper Seagry [GNS]
160. vergry [OED:12/1:123]
161. Vigry [CLG:2090]
162. vngry [OED (see wretch)]
163. Wągry [GNS]
164. war-hungry [OED (see war)]
165. Wegry:
1. Wegry [GNS]
2. Węgry [GNS]
166. WGRY — all cap. call letters of a radio station in Grayling, Michigan. [...]
167. Wigry [CLG:2090; GNS; NAP:xxxix; Times/7:220, pl.62; WA:948]
168. wind-hungry [W2]
169. Yagry [GNS]
170. yeard-hungry [CED (see yird)]
171. yerd-hungry [CED (see yird); OED]
172. yird-hungry [CED (see yird)]
173. Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st boss verb), (variant of imagery)]
174. Zygry [GNS]

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