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GRY WORDS

Source: This information was compiled by Arlet Otten (arlet@dutecai.et.tudelft.nl) It is used here by permission.

Aside from "angry" and "hungry" and words derived therefrom, there is only one word ending with "-gry" in Webster's Third Unabridged: "aggry." However, this word is defective in that it is part of a phrase "aggry beads." The OED's usage examples all talk about "aggry beads."

Moving to older dictionaries, we find that "gry" itself is a word in Webster's Second Unabridged (and the OED):

gry, n. [L. gry, a trifle; Gr. gry, a grunt]
1. a measure equal to one-tenth of a line. [Obs.] (Obs. = obsolete)
2. anything very small. [Rare.]

This is a list of 100 words, phrases and names ending in "gry": [Explanation of references is given at the end of the list.]

• aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
• Agry Dagh (Mount Agry) [EB11]
• ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
• angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
• anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
• Badagry [Johnston; EB11]
• Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; RD:164, pl.49]
• begry [OED:1:770,767]
• bewgry [OED:1:1160]
• bowgry [OED:1:1160]
• braggry [OED:1:1047]
• Bugry [TIG]
• Chockpugry [Worcester]
• Cogry [BBC]
• cony-gry [OED:2:956]
• conyngry [OED:2:956]
• Croftangry [DFC, as "Chrystal Croftangry"]
• dog-hungry [W2]
• Dshagry [Stieler]
• Dzagry [Andree]
• eard-hungry [CED (see "yird"); CSD]
• Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
• Egry [France; TIG]
• ever-angry [W2]
• fire-angry [W2]
• Gagry [EB11]
• gry (from Latin _gry_) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
• gry (from Romany _grai_) [W2]
• haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
• half-angry [W2]
• hangry [OED:1:329]
• heart-angry [W2]
• heart-hungry [W2]
• higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
• hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
• hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
• hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
• huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
• hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
• Hungry Bungry [Daily Illini, in ad for The Giraffe, Spring 1976]
• iggry [OED]
• Jagry [EB11]
• kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
• land-hungry [OED; W2]
• leather-hungry [OED]
• Langry [TIG; Times]
• Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489]
• MacLoingry [Phillips (as "Flaithbhertach MacLoingry")]
• mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
• mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
• magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
• malgry [OED:6/2:247]
• man-hungry [OED]
• Margry [Indians (see "Pierre Margry" in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
• maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
• mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
• meagry [OED:6/2:267]
• meat-hungry [W2]
• menagry [OED (see "managery")]
• messagry [OED]
• nangry [OED]
• overangry [RH1; RH2]
• Pelegry [CE (in main index as "Raymond de Pelegry")]
• Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
• podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
• Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
• pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
• puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
• pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
• rungry [EDD:5:188]
• scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
• Schtschigry [LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
• Seagry [TIG; EB11]
• Segry [Johnston; Andree]
• self-angry [W2]
• self-hungry ?
• Shchigry [CLG:1747; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times:185,pl.45]
• shiggry [EDD]
• Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
• Shtshigry [Lipp]
• skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
• Sygry [Andree]
• Tangry [France]
• Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
• Tchigry [Johnson:594]
• tear-angry [W2]
• tike-hungry [CSD]
• Tingry [France; EB11 (under "Princesse de Tingry")]
• toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry", but all entries are capitalized)]
• ulgry [Partridge; Smith:24-25]
• unangry [OED; W2]
• vergry [OED:12/1:123]
• Virgy [CLG:2090]
• Wirgy [CLG:2090; NAP:xxxix; Times:220, pl.62; WA:948]
• wind-angry.
• wind-hungry [W2]
• yeard-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
• yerd-hungry [CED (see "yird"); OED]
• yird-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
• Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]

This list was gathered from the following articles:
George H. Scheetz, In Goodly Gree: With Goodwill, Word Ways 22:195 (Nov. 1989)
Murray R. Pearce, Who's Flaithbhertach MacLoingry?, Word Ways 23:6 (Feb. 1990)
Harry B. Partridge, Gypsy Hobby Gry, Word Ways 23:9 (Feb. 1990)
A. Ross Eckler, -Gry Words in the OED, Word Ways 25:4 (Nov. 1992)

References:
(Many references are of the form [Source:volume:page] or [Source:page].)

• Andree, Richard. Andrees Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
• Bartholomew, John. Gazetteer of the British Isles: Statistical and Topographical. 1887.
• BBC = BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of English Names.
• Bio-Base. (Microfiche) Detroit: Gale Research Company. 1980.
• CE = Catholic Encyclopedia. 1907.
• CED = Chambers English Dictionary. 1988.
• Century = "India, Northern Part." The Century Atlas of the World. 1897, 1898.
• CLG = The Colombia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World. L.E.Seltzer, ed. 1952.
• CSD = Chambers Scots Dictionary. 1971 reprint of 1911 edition.
• Daily Illini (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
• DFC = Dictionary of Fictional Characters. 1963.
• EB11 = Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed.
• EDD = The English Dialect Dictionary. Joseph Wright, ed. 1898.
• France = Map Index of France. G.H.Q. American Expeditionary Forces. 1918.
• FW = Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language. 1943.
• HPS = The Handbook of Private Schools: An Annual Descriptive Survey of Independent Education, 66th ed. 1985.
• Indians = Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. F. W. Hodge. 1912.
• Jamieson, John. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. 1879-87.
• Johnston, Keith. Index Geographicus... 1864.
• LG/1 = Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer or Geographical Dictionary of the World. 1888.
• LG/2 = Lippincott's New Gazetteer: ... 1906.
• Lipp = Lippincott's Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World. 1861, undated edition from late 1800's; 1902.
• NAP = Narodowy Atlas Polski. 1973-1978 [Polish language]
• OED = The Oxford English Dictionary. 1933. [Form: OED:volume/part number if applicable:page]
• OSN: U.S.S.R. Volume 6, S-T. Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. Gazetteer #42, 2nd ed. June 1970.
• Partridge, Harry B. "Ad Memoriam Demetrii." Word Ways, 19 (Aug. 1986): 131.
• Phillips, Lawrence. Dictionary of Biographical Reference. 1889.
• RD = The Reader's Digest Complete Atlas of the British Isles, 1st ed. 1965.
• RH1 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. 1966.
• RH2 = Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition Unabridged. 1987.
• Simmonds, P.L. Commercial Dictionary of Trade Products. 1883.
• Smith, John. The True Travels, Adventvres and Observations: London 1630.
• Stieler, Adolph. Stieler's Handatlas (index volume). 1925.
• TIG = The Times Index-Gazetteer of the World. 1965.
• Times = The Times Atlas of the World, 7th ed. 1985.
• W2 = Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged. 1934.
• W3 = Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged. 1961.
• WA = The World Atlas: Index-Gazetteer. Council of Ministires of the USSR, 1968.
• Worcester, J.E. Universal Gazetteer, Second Edition. 1823.

Some words containing "gry" that do not end with "gry":

• agrypnia
• agrypnotic
• Gryllidae
• gryllid
• gryllus
• Gryllus
• grylloblattid
• Gryllotalpa
• gryllos
• grypanian
• Gryphaea
• Gryll
• Gryphaea
• gryposis
• grysbok
• gryphon
• Gryphosaurus
• Grypotherium
• grysbuck

Most of these are in Webster's Second also with one from Webster's Third Edition and one from the Random House Dictionary, Second Edition Unabridged.

See also: The Third English Word Ending on "gry"

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