Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A dialectal variant of
grue . - noun A measure equal to one tenth of a line of a philosophical foot. It was never in general use.
- noun Anything very small or of little value.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A measure equal to one tenth of a line.
- noun rare Anything very small, or of little value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic A small amount.
- noun archaic An hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by Locke.
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Examples
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The library staff gleefully found the answers to the words that end in gry: hungry, angry (OK, those were easy), aggry (a type of ancient, variegated glass beads), meagry (having
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Say you're at a cocktail party wondering how many words end in "gry."
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word help: there r only 3 words in the english language that end in "gry" -
[Help] Most Recent Posts charming_mica 2010
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Help. com there r only 3 words in the english language that end in "gry" 1 is angry and the other is hungry. everyone knows wat the 3rd 1 means & wat 8 stands 4. everyone uses 8 everyday & f u listen 2 me crefully, ive given u d 3rd word already. wat is it?
[Help] Most Recent Posts charming_mica 2010
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Smallest number greater than 0 the third word in the English language ending in "gry"
Everything2 New Writeups AndreM 2010
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Już niedługo polecimy w kosmos w grze MMO tworzonej na zlecenie NASA, gry-online. pl
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Wyniki badań przedstawił w wydaniu: Annual Review of Cyberteraphy and Telemedicyne, z którego wynika, że gry mogą mieć pozytywny wpływ na zmniejszenie depresji u grającego.
Nowości w KDE SC 4.5 cz.2 GregKoval 2010
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Wyniki badań przedstawił w wydaniu: Annual Review of Cyberteraphy and Telemedicyne, z którego wynika, że gry mogą mieć pozytywny wpływ na zmniejszenie depresji u grającego.
Nowości w KDE SC 4.5 cz.2 GregKoval 2010
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Już niedługo polecimy w kosmos w grze MMO tworzonej na zlecenie NASA, gry-online. pl
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Moandor: Hmmm … Ale na LugPolu nie widzę tej gry … Dziwne …
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oroboros commented on the word gry
The name for a hundredth of an inch in a long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably pronounced to rhyme with 'cry').
March 1, 2007
reesetee commented on the word gry
And also the answer to the question, "There are three words in the English language that end in -gry. One is angry; the second is hungry. What's the third?"
I must have heard that about 5 times before I remembered. ;-)
March 1, 2007