# Move over, "-gry", here comes "-dous" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 27, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401 "2006-09-27T19:29:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/1 "2006-09-27T19:29:56Z")
Now, instead of trying to figure out the 3 words ending in -gry, Cecil has provided a treatise on [four words ending in -dous.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_236.html) The respondents give a bunch of other words ending in -dous, including vanadous, molybdous, mucidous, multifidous, nefandous, frondous, and a bunch of others. I don’t think any of the words suggested, including Cecil’s own “timidous” (as in timid, timider, timidous) meets the criteria of “commonly used” as stated in the original question. But at least we get to take our minds off of -gry words for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/2 "2006-09-27T21:57:41Z")
[QUOTE=FatBaldGuy] I don’t think any of the words suggested [/QUOTE] “hazardous”? That makes the fourth, and a “negative” as Asimov requested. ---
**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/3 "2006-09-27T22:23:30Z")
Yes, and Cecil mentioned hazardous in his original answer. But then he added timidous, probably in an attempt to be humordous. ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/4 "2006-09-28T13:19:54Z")
It took me six seconds to come up with voluptuous, so I guess it’s true what they say about guys. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/5 "2006-09-28T13:26:31Z")
That they have 6 second attention spans? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/6 "2006-09-28T13:47:53Z")
It’s stupendous that tremendous wasn’t even mentioned ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/7 "2006-09-28T13:49:01Z")
Oh, how stupid I feel now. :o ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/8 "2006-09-28T13:53:12Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] That they have 6 second attention spans? [/QUOTE] No. That guys think about sex every six seconds. So I guess you are right. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/9 "2006-09-28T15:25:51Z")
[QUOTE=Greenback] It took me six seconds to come up with voluptuous, so I guess it’s true what they say about guys. [/QUOTE] I gues it “dous” make you a guy, since there’s no dous in voluptuous. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-over-gry-here-comes-dous/374401/10 "2006-09-28T15:40:24Z")
My only defense is that I was thinking about something else :smack: