Guess the Riddle
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Thread Topic: Guess the Riddle
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LeahM
3.A tornado? -
what was coming down from the crying cloud???
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Rain. -_-
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Think of words ending in "gry" two are angry and hungry. There are three words in the English language. What is the thrid word?
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Shizer. I meant third.
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• aggry: variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture, mentioned by various 19th-century writers as having been found buried in parts of Africa.
• begry: an obsolete 15th-century spelling of the word 'beggary' (i.e., extreme poverty).
• conyngry: an obsolete 17th-century spelling of the even more obsolete word 'conynger' (like 'cunningaire' and 'conygarth,' a term meaning 'rabbit warren').
• gry: a unit of measurement proposed by English philosopher John Locke in his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding."
• higry-pigry: a corruption (along with 'hickery-pickery' and 'hicra picra') of the Greek 'hiera picra' (approximately 'sacred bitters'), a term for many medicines in the Greek pharmacopoeia, particularly a purgative drug composed of aloes and canella bark.
• iggry: an early 20th century British army slang borrowing from the Arabic 'ijri, meaning 'Hurry up!"
• meagry: a rare and obsolete early 17th-century variant meaning 'meager-looking.'
• menagry: obsolete 18th-century alternate spelling of 'menagerie.'
• nangry: a rare and obsolete 17th-century variant of 'angry.'
• podagry: a 17th-century variant spelling of 'podagra,' a medical lexicon term for 'gout.'
• puggry: a 19th-century alternate spelling of 'puggaree' or 'puggree,' derived from the Hindi 'pagri,' a word for a light turban or head covering worn in India.
• skugry: a 16th-century variant spelling of 'scuggery,' meaning 'concealment' or 'secrecy.' -
The answer is langauge
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Except language doesnt end in 'gry'. :P So explain how that works.
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I said that there are three words in "the English language" and I asked what the third word was. The rest was just fluff to lead you away from the answer.
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Sorry you had to put all those definitions up there, There is always a double meaning to riddles.
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They all came on the same site, so it doesn't matter.
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1.You are the driver of a bus. You stop ona corner and pick up 6 people. At the second stop, 4 people get on and 3people get off. When you stop again, 5 people get on and 2 people get off. At the last stop, 5 people get on and 1 person gets off. How old is the bus driver?
2.You live in a one story blue house. Everything in the house is blue. The walls are blue, the fridge is blue, the plates are blue, ect. What color are the stairs? -
1. 16 because thats my age
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2. and there arent any stairs because its a one story house
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Those werent really hard. There are harder ones on here.
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