*OT* - This is driving me nuts! (Riddle)

[DanZ]

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?

DanZ

 

[Anonymous]

Heard it before, its a tricky question, i think the answer is Language

J

 

[Anonymous]

* aggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa.

* begry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty).

* conyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren').

* gry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

* higry-pigry: a corruption (along with 'hickery-pickery' and 'hicra picra') of the Greek 'hiera picra' (approximately 'sacred bitters'), a term for many medicines in the Greek pharmacopoeia, particularly a purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark.

* iggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!"

* meagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.'

* menagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.'

* nangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.'

* podagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.'

* puggry: a 19th-century alternate spelling of 'puggaree' or 'puggree,' derived from the Hindi 'pagri,' a word for a light turban or head covering worn in India.

* skugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.'

 

[DanZ]

Let me word it differently for mr smart ass! lol

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.

 

[BlackBravo]

every?

Pete





DONT WORK FOR THE CO-OP THEY DONT PAY PERIOD!

 

[BlackBravo]

nah forget that,
the thrird word is Hungry!!!

Pete





DONT WORK FOR THE CO-OP THEY DONT PAY PERIOD!

 

[Bill]

Ignore the first two sentances they're to mislead you.

It's quite simple really. This is the main bit of the riddle "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".

There are only three words in the English language.

the, english and language.

What is the third word?

language

Everyone uses it everyday, you were told what is was.

It's language.

 

[Anonymous]

You cracked it Sherlock, or not?

sven

 

[Sabre23]

If 'language' is the answer then There are three words in the English language that end in "gry". does not make any sense, in the context of the riddle!

Mark.
Council estate lad.
And proud of it!
Member of the Guild of Experienced Motorists.

 

[Anonymous]

Its not the correct riddle, i guess its been altered down the line.

The answer is Language.

Like i said i've heard it before.

Joske

 

[DanZ]

The answer is language yes! The first sentance is there to mislead you. Look at the second way i put it, that is the correct way of putting it