8. There are only three words in the English language, all adjectives, which end in "-gry." Two are "angry" and "hungry"; the third word describes the state of the world today. What is it?
This is the (presumed) original version of the puzzle from 1975. The possible answers (if obsolete words, names, and hyphenated compounds of "angry" and "hungry" are allowed) are plentiful. Most of the 124 listed below were in the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, and all have appeared in some major dictionary of English:
affect-hungry fire-angry MacLoingry Seagry aggry Gagry mad-angry self-angry Agry girl-hungry mad-hungry selfe-angry ahungry gonagry magry sensation-hungry air-hungry gry malgry sex-angry anhungry haegry man-hungry sex-hungry Badagry half-angry managry Shchigry Ballingry hangry mannagry shiggry begry heart-angry Margry Shtchigry bewgryheart-hungry maugry sight-hungry boroughmongry higry pigry mawgry skugry bowgry hogrymeagrySygry braggry hogrymogry meat-hungry Tangry Bugry hongry menagry TchangryChockpugryhound-hungrymessagryTchigry Cogry houngrymusic-hungrytear-angrycony-gryhuggrymuggrynangryth'angryconyngryhund-hungry overangrytike-hungrycottagryHungry BungryPelegryTingryCroftangryhwngryPingrytoggry diamond-hungryiggryPodagryulgrydog-hungryJagryPongryunangrydogge-hungryjob-hungry pottingryvergryDshagrykaingrypower-hungryVigryDzagryland-hungryprofit-hungryvngry eard-hungryLangrypuggrywar-hungryEchanuggry leather-hungrypugryWigryEgryledderhungry red-angry wind-hungry euer-angry life-hungry rungry yeard-hungry ever-angry Lisnagry scavengry yird-hungry fenegry losengry Schtschigry Ymagry
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