re words ending with gry

jane88 | 19:10 Tue 26th Feb 2008 | Riddles

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

How are these words connected?

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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