Besides angry and hungry, is there another common English word that ends in -gry?
No. There are a few English words that end in -gry, including, but not limited to, the following words in our dictionaries: aggry, angry, hungry, and puggry. There are at least a hundred more you can find in the Oxford English Dictionary, dialect dictionaries, gazetteers and onomasticons, but none of them are common. Some are simply hyphenated items like “dog-hungry” and “ever-angry” while others are variants like “begry” (for beggary) and “higry pigry” (a variation of hierapicra). There is even a word “gry,” which is an obsolete unit of measure equaling 0.008 inches. But the reason the question comes up so frequently is because of a riddle. One version of the riddle goes, “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.” The answer is sometimes given as “language,” because “l