the third word

unangry


whim

not in the dictionary

Welcome to the forum ACHARAJ.

Original wording:

"There are three words in the English language that end in GRY. Two are HUNGRY and ANGRY. The third one everyone uses every day and knows what it stands for. If you listened carefully, I already told you what the word is."

The 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"!


Otherwise, take your pick:

aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
begry [OED:1:770,767]
bewgry [OED:1:1160]
bowgry [OED:1:1160]
braggry [OED:1:1047]
mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
malgry [OED:6/2:247]
man-hungry [OED]
maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
meagry [OED:6/2:267]
menagry [OED (see "managery")]
messagry [OED]
nangry [OED]
skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
unangry [OED; W2]
vergry [OED:12/1:123]
Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]


OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. 1933. [Form: OED:volume/part number if applicable: page]

wet blanket

Pedigry???
Hmm.........

Webster's Third New International unabridged dictionary lists only one word ending in "gry" -- "aggry," meaning a type of prehistoric bead. But it seems quite a stretch to classify "aggry" as a common English word.

The answer for Tryagain's question is "Three" the third word, but ACHARAJ you hatched the question wrong man.....

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?

The answer is 'language'. The key sentences are the second and third. If you just read those two, the answer is obvious. The first sentence is a ruse to throw you off. 'Language' is the only answer that fits the hints that follow those two sentence.

So, all the searching in dictionaries is pointless. I hope you'll pass this information along. Before I finally discovered the correct phrasing of the question and the answer, I looked there and did not find a satisfying answer.

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