以gry结尾的英文单词,除了angry和hungry还有哪个?

以gry结尾的英文单词,除了angry和hungry还有哪个?
以gry结尾的英文单词,除了angry和hungry还有哪个?

以gry结尾的英文单词,除了angry和hungry还有哪个?
没有第三个了,
网上有一则像病毒一样流传的英语谜语.
There are three words in the English language that end in -gry.One is hungry and another is angry.What is the third word?Everyone uses this word every day; everyone knows what it means and what it stands for.If you've listened closely,I've already told you what the word is.
意思是,除了Hungry和Angry,你还能想出第三个以-gry结尾的单词吗?
先提示一下,这是一道脑筋急转弯的题目.
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谜语的答案是“language”,关键就在第一句话里“There are three words in the English language that end in -gry.”,没想到吧?
事实上,英语里除了Hungry和Angry,还真没有第三个以-gry结尾的常用单词.

Gary 名字或者是美国的一个城市名

wikipedia已经有定论：
The -Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than "angry" and "hungry," that ends with the letters "gry." Aside from words derived from "angry" and "hungry," there is no stand-alone word ending in "gry" that is in current usage.

生僻词或陈旧词(废弃词)：
aggry: Coloured and variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, found buried in the ground in Africa. A word of unknown origin. Seemingly always used attributively, as in aggry be...

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生僻词或陈旧词(废弃词)：
aggry: Coloured and variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, found buried in the ground in Africa. A word of unknown origin. Seemingly always used attributively, as in aggry beads.
braggry: A variant form of braggery. Obsolete.
conyngry: An obsolete dialectal variant of conyger, itself an obsolete term meaning “rabbit warren”.
gry: The smallest unit in Locke’s proposed decimal system of linear measurement, being the tenth of a line, the hundredth of an inch, and the thousandth of a (“philosophical”) foot. Also the grunt of a pig, an insignificant trifle, or a verb meaning to roar. Obsolete.
iggry: Egyptian colloquial Arabic pronunciation of ijri: “Hurry up!”, brought back after the First World War by members of British and Australian forces who had fought in Egypt.
meagry: Having a meagre appearance. Obsolete.
nangry: A variant form of angry. Obsolete.
podagry: Dodder, or the condition of a plant infested with it.
puggry: A variant form of puggree, a light turban or head-covering worn by inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent.

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