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You are repeating a famous riddle...but the probelm is your repeating it worng which is how we all get befuddled by it the first time we hear it....here are a few different ways to ACTUALLY get an answer:
1. Think of words ending in "-gry". "Angry" and "hungry" are two of them. There are only three words in "the English language." What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
2. "Angry" and "hungry" are two words in the English language that end in "-gry". "What" is the third word. The word is something that everyone uses everyday. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.
3. There are three words in English that end in "gree." The first two are "angry" and "hungry," and if you've listened closely you'll agree that I've told you the third one.
4. 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 every day. And if you listened carefully I've given you the third word, what is it?
THE ABOVE ARE ALL RIDDLES--so the answer is not simply what is the thrid "gry" word...
but for all you who want to know...
There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in "-gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it? This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:
affect-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry aggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry Agry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry ahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry air-hungry gry malgry sex-angry anhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry Badagry half-angry managry Shchigry Ballingry hangry mannagry shiggry begry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry bewgry heart-hungry maugry sight-hungry boroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry bowgry hogry meagry Sygry braggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry Bugry hongry menagry Tchangry Chockpugry hound-hungry messagry Tchigry Cogry houngry music-hungry tear-angry cony-gry huggrymuggry nangry th'angry conyngry hund-hungry overangry tike-hungry cottagry Hungry Bungry Pelegry Tingry Croftangry hwngry Pingry toggry diamond-hungry iggry Podagry ulgry dog-hungry Jagry Pongry unangry dogge-hungry job-hungry pottingry vergry Dshagry kaingry power-hungry Vigry Dzagry land-hungry profit-hungry vngry eard-hungry Langry puggry war-hungry Echanuggry leather-hungry pugry Wigry Egry ledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry euer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry ever-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry fenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry
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