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the infamous GRY puzzle

The GRY collection at www.MAZES.com:
  1. Our webmaster's thorough explanation
  2. One Hundred Words that end in -gry:
  3. Another GRY expert and his explanation
  4. A third expert's GRY point of view

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The GRY Puzzle

Think of words that end in g-r-y. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is a common word, one that people use everyday, and if you were listening carefully, I have already told you what it is. What is the third word?

(This web page contains text that I found on the Internet. I believe that I am allowed to post it here, but all visitors should assume that the original authors may have copyrighted their collections of information.)

from: <news:rec.puzzles> and <www.faqs.org/faqs/alt-usage-english-faq/>:

One Hundred words that end in -gry
  1. aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
  2. Agry Dagh (Mount Agry) [EB11]
  3. ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
  4. angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
  5. anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
  6. Badagry [Johnston; EB11]
  7. Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; RD:164, pl.49]
  8. begry [OED:1:770,767]
  9. bewgry [OED:1:1160]
  10. bowgry [OED:1:1160]
  11. braggry [OED:1:1047]
  12. Bugry [TIG]
  13. Chockpugry [Worcester]
  14. Cogry [BBC]
  15. cony-gry [OED:2:956]
  16. conyngry [OED:2:956]
  17. Croftangry [DFC, as "Chrystal Croftangry"]
  18. dog-hungry [W2]
  19. Dshagry [Stieler]
  20. Dzagry [Andree]
  21. eard-hungry [CED (see "yird"); CSD]
  22. Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
  23. Egry [France; TIG]
  24. ever-angry [W2]
  25. fire-angry [W2]
  26. Gagry [EB11]
  27. gry (from Latin _gry_) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
  28. gry (from Romany _grai_) [W2]
  29. haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
  30. half-angry [W2]
  31. hangry [OED:1:329]
  32. heart-angry [W2]
  33. heart-hungry [W2]
  34. higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
  35. hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
  36. hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
  37. hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
  38. huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
  39. hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
  40. Hungry Bungry [Daily Illini, in ad for The Giraffe, Spring 1976]
  41. iggry [OED]
  42. Jagry [EB11]
  43. kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
  44. land-hungry [OED; W2]
  45. leather-hungry [OED]
  46. Langry [TIG; Times]
  47. Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489]
  48. MacLoingry [Phillips (as "Flaithbhertach MacLoingry")]
  49. mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
  50. mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
  51. magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
  52. malgry [OED:6/2:247]
  53. man-hungry [OED]
  54. Margry [Indians (see "Pierre Margry" in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
  55. maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
  56. mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
  57. meagry [OED:6/2:267]
  58. meat-hungry [W2]
  59. menagry [OED (see "managery")]
  60. messagry [OED]
  61. nangry [OED]
  62. overangry [RH1; RH2]
  63. Pelegry [CE (in main index as "Raymond de Pelegry")]
  64. Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
  65. podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
  66. Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
  67. pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
  68. puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
  69. pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
  70. rungry [EDD:5:188]
  71. scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
  72. Schtschigry [LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
  73. Seagry [TIG; EB11]
  74. Segry [Johnston; Andree]
  75. self-angry [W2]
  76. self-hungry ?
  77. Shchigry [CLG:1747; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times:185,pl.45]
  78. shiggry [EDD]
  79. Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
  80. Shtshigry [Lipp]
  81. skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
  82. Sygry [Andree]
  83. Tangry [France]
  84. Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
  85. Tchigry [Johnson:594]
  86. tear-angry [W2]
  87. tike-hungry [CSD]
  88. Tingry [France; EB11 (under "Princesse de Tingry")]
  89. toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry", but all entries are capitalized)]
  90. ulgry [Partridge; Smith:24-25]
  91. unangry [OED; W2]
  92. vergry [OED:12/1:123]
  93. Virgy [CLG:2090]
  94. Wirgy [CLG:2090; NAP:xxxix; Times:220, pl.62; WA:948]
  95. wind-angry.
  96. wind-hungry [W2]
  97. yeard-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
  98. yerd-hungry [CED (see "yird"); OED]
  99. yird-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
  100. Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]
References shown in [brackets] in the lefthand list:

Andree, Richard. Andrees Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
Bartholomew, John. Gazetteer of the British Isles: Statistical and Topographical. 1887.
BBC = BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of English Names.
Bio-Base. (Microfiche) Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1980.
CE = Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907.
CED = Chambers English Dictionary. 1988.
Century = "India, Northern Part." The Century Atlas of the World. 1897, 1898.
CLG = The Colombia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World. L.E.Seltzer, ed. 1952.
CSD = Chambers Scots Dictionary. 1971 reprint of 1911 edition.
Daily Illini (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
DFC = Dictionary of Fictional Characters. 1963.
EB11 = Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed.
EDD = The English Dialect Dictionary. Joseph Wright, ed. 1898.
France = Map Index of France. G.H.Q. American Expeditionary Forces. 1918.
FW = Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 1943.
HPS = The Handbook of Private Schools: An Annual Descriptive Survey of Independent Education, 66th ed. 1985.
Indians = Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. F. W. Hodge. 1912.
Jamieson, John. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. 1879-87.
Johnston, Keith. Index Geographicus... 1864.
LG/1 = Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary of the World. 1888.
LG/2 = Lippincott's New Gazetteer: ... 1906.
Lipp = Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World. 1861, undated edition from late 1800's; 1902.
NAP = Narodowy Atlas Polski. 1973-1978 [Polish language]
OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. 1933. [Form: OED:volume/part number if applicable:page]
OSN: U.S.S.R. Volume 6, S-T. Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. Gazetteer #42, 2nd ed. June 1970.
Partridge, Harry B. "Ad Memoriam Demetrii." Word Ways, 19 (Aug. 1986): 131.
Phillips, Lawrence. Dictionary of Biographical Reference. 1889.
RD = The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of the British Isles, 1st ed. 1965.
RH1 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. 1966.
RH2 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition Unabridged. 1987.
Simmonds, P.L. Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products. 1883.
Smith, John. The True Travels, Adventvres and Observations: London 1630.
Stieler, Adolph. Stieler's Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
TIG = The Times Index-Gazetteer of the World. 1965.
Times = The Times Atlas of the World, 7th ed. 1985.
W2 = Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged. 1934.
W3 = Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. 1961.
WA = The World Atlas: Index-Gazetteer. Council of Ministires of the USSR, 1968.
Worcester, J.E. Universal Gazetteer, Second Edition. 1823.

The list of -gry words (see left) was gathered from the following articles:

George H. Scheetz, In Goodly Gree: With Goodwill, Word Ways 22:195 (Nov. 1989)

Murray R. Pearce, Who's Flaithbhertach MacLoingry?, Word Ways 23:6 (Feb. 1990)

Harry B. Partridge, Gypsy Hobby Gry, Word Ways 23:9 (Feb. 1990)
A. Ross Eckler, -Gry Words in the OED, Word Ways 25:4 (Nov. 1992)

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