# Let's Invent a Third -gry Word

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**Created:** [January 24, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865 "2008-01-24T20:53:42Z")\
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Maybe, just maybe if we can come up with a useful word that ends in -gry, use it frequently on the internets in our daily loives it will become accepted by the powers that be (I assume it is the Illuminati or the Tripartate Commission) as an official word. Then we won’t have to worry about it ever being brought up ever again.

I propose,

phelgry: when one gets angry after reading or hearing about Fred Phelps latest stunt.

I can’t believe they protested the funeral, it made me so phelgry.

Any other suggestions?

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“Jaegry”. I haven’t thought a meaning up for it…but there you go.

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What’s wrong with “Thungry,” from the old Nestle Quik commercials?

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Grygry - a stupid or pointless riddle

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Bangry - when you don’t know whether you want to hit someone or . . .

Ambigry - don’t know whether you’re angry or not because being angry never solved anything and who are you to be angry anyway, when so many other people have much worse problems.

Gol’dangry - a folksy sort of angry

Kangry - you know, one a them hoppin’ critters

Langry - the sort of upset that requires smelling salts, fans, and long chairs

Onangry - dammit, they’re asking me to create an heir for my brother, who’ll then inherit his stuff instead of me. I’ve a good mind to pull out on the deal.

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/6 "2008-01-24T21:28:21Z")

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Uggry: Refers to unattractive Japanese women.

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/7 "2008-01-24T21:46:22Z")

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[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]  
Uggry: Refers to unattractive Japanese women.  
[/QUOTE]

You better be careful or you’ll wind up mentioned in [this thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=452313&page=1&pp=50)😃

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/8 "2008-01-24T22:23:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]  
Uggry: Refers to unattractive Japanese women.  
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HA!

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Homogry: Ambivalency towards the human race.

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Songry: Having an unexplainable urge to sing.

Kongry: A gnawing desire to play a 1980s video game.

Pongry: Similar to as “kongry” only simpler, and in green-and-white.

Tingry: A pins-and-needles feeling of excitement upon seeing an uggry person of the opposite sex.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/11 "2008-01-25T01:16:01Z")

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Hangry: Hungry and Angry _at the same time._

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/12 "2008-01-25T01:30:08Z")

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Agry - to not disagree

What?

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/13 "2008-01-25T01:55:12Z")

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Buggry: The intense itch one gets in their bung hole shortly after taking a big dump.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/14 "2008-01-25T02:06:23Z")

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**Grygry** _adj._ Of, or relating to, one or more of the words that end in -gry.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/15 "2008-01-25T02:29:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]  
Uggry: Refers to unattractive Japanese women.  
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I came in here to write this…

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Fingry–applies to gynecologists and proctologists primarily.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/17 "2008-01-25T03:09:08Z")

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Boggry - Cross between ‘bog’ and ‘grungy’ - describing one’s hygenic state the day after a week’s bender.

Whoregry (Horgry?) - Subject to severe carnal appetites.  
…it just doesn’t immediately seem to suggest any constructions that are, well, nice.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/18 "2008-01-25T03:11:44Z")

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Horngry

This one should be reasonably easy to figure out.

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-invent-a-third-gry-word/434865/19 "2008-01-25T04:07:33Z")

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_pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiogry_ - the emotion you feel upon inhaling volcanic dust

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[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever]  
“Jaegry”. I haven’t thought a meaning up for it…but there you go.  
[/QUOTE]  
Tasting like a German liquor, the one with overtones of cough syrup?

It so almost is a real word…
