re words ending with gry

[jane88]

there are 3 words ending with gry .Angry Hungry but what is the third

[B00]

This gets asked here every couple of months or so. The simple answer is, there isnt a third one.

[geff_p]

good n!

[Lie-in King]

Aggry - "Applied to ancient W African variegated glass beads" (Chambers)

[matt1e]

* aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the ground in parts of Africa.
* begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary.
* conyngry: a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning 'rabbit warren', which survives in old English field names such as 'Conery' and 'Coneygar'.
* gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with 'cry').
* higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug hiera picra.
* iggry: an old army slang word meaning 'hurry up', borrowed from Arabic.
* meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning 'meagre-looking'.
* menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie.
* nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry.
* podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical term for gout.
* puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree), referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth worn around a sun-helmet.
* skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word scuggery meaning 'secrecy' (the faint echo of 'skulduggery' is quite accidental!).

[matt1e]

but if the question is
Apart from 'angry' and 'hungry', what other COMMON English word ends in '-gry'?
then boo is right there isnt one

[squarebear]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Quizzes-and-Puz zles/Question520432.html

[angiejla]

The original question stated Name 3 words ending in G or Y, saying the question puts a whole new spin on it.

[tara20]

If you really want to get confused try this ;-)
http://www.fun-with-words.com/word_gry_angry_h ungry.html

[jayfax]

My Oxford dictionary offers
AGGRY
(Designating) a type of ancient variegated glass bead found buried in the ground in Ghana.