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HAMC8112
25-04-2006, 14:03
I need to find a word but for the life of me i do not have a clue. Someone asked me an english word that end on GRY, like in angry and hungry.

Any idea's anyone?

PatMaGroin
25-04-2006, 14:14
The "third -gry word" riddle

The Internet has been buzzing with a word riddle: "There are three common words that end with -gry, all of which you use every day. Two of them are angry and hungry. What is the third?"

Give up? Don't worry. Aside from formations such as man-hungry, the only two words that qualify are not common. One is gry itself, which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as an obsolete unit from John Locke's make-believe measurement system, equal to about a tenth of an inch. And Webster's Third New International lists aggry, a prehistoric bead.

So unless you routinely measure your aggries in gries, there is no answer to the question. One Web site (www.word-detective.com/) speculates that the whole thing is a misquote of one of those trick-question riddles.
Source (http://www.cornerstoneword.com/edgepage/words/words.htm)

Ctrl + F, type in gry, search twice.

HAMC8112
25-04-2006, 14:19
Source (http://www.cornerstoneword.com/edgepage/words/words.htm)

Ctrl + F, type in gry, search twice.

Thank you.

Dondrei
25-04-2006, 14:36
But that doesn't solve the riddle, since they aren't common. I'm pretty sure it's a trick. I can't remember the solution, but you'll be pissed when you find out.

HAMC8112
25-04-2006, 14:38
But that doesn't solve the riddle, since they aren't common. I'm pretty sure it's a trick. I can't remember the solution, but you'll be pissed when you find out.

Might well be especially when i could have won some petrified time with it.

Thelioness
25-04-2006, 14:49
http://www.contestcen.com/gry.htm

Dondrei
26-04-2006, 00:48
That was it, number two. The third word is "language".