Posted by Stupid White Man at 167.127.163.203 on May 16, 2003 at 13:43:33:
In Reply to: Anyone get this? posted by wildenforcer on May 16, 2003 at 13:34:37:
: 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?
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.'