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Originally posted by PearlWaters
A RIDDLE THAT'LL KILL YOUR BRAIN!
This is going to make you so MAD!
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 everyday, and if
you listened very carefully, I've given you the third word.
What is it? _______gry? |
Simple. The third word IS angry.
If you read the second sentence you see that the "third" word is "angry". The question asked is "What is the third word?" not what is the mythical "thrird word ending in gry". But if you wish, I have some terms for you:
Aside from "angry" and "hungry" and words derived therefrom, there is
only one word ending with "-gry" in Webster's Third Unabridged: "aggry."
However, this word is defective in that it is part of a phrase "aggry beads."
The OED's usage examples all talk about "aggry beads."
Moving to older dictionaries, we find that "gry" itself is a word in Webster's
Second Unabridged (and the OED):
gry, n. [L. gry, a trifle; Gr. gry, a grunt]
1. a measure equal to one-tenth of a line. [Obs.] (Obs. = obsolete)
2. anything very small. [Rare.]
Good enough? And no, it didn't really drive me nuts
