Finally, the third -gry word ?

Aromadon has sent in the following:
‘After much searching and lamenting, we finally discovered that the word is “ogry”, meaning “a tenth of” or “a tenth portion of”. The clue that it is used every day “if you think about it” is an indication of the partial use of the human brain, usually considered to be 5 to 10% of the actual capacity.

The riddle, however, is misleading. While the word does exist, and was once in use, though NEVER commonly, it fell out of use in most English speaking areas in the mid 1500’s to the early 1600’s, and was completely removed from texts no later then the early 1800’s, so while it is, in fact, a recognized word, in order to actually have experienced it in any meaningful way, one would, at this time, need to be over 160 years old, and well over 300 to have used it in even the most remote of English speaking cultures.

All in all, this makes the riddle neither amusing or entertaining, but merely annoying. :(’

Thomas Beckman has sent in the following:
‘There is a riddle that goes:
There are 3 words in the dictionary that end in ‘gry. Angry and Hungry are the first two. What is the third. And if you listened carefully, I have already given you the answer.
If you read this VERY carefully, you’ll notice the sentence ‘What is the third’ is not a question, but a statement. So the real answer is “WHAT”. It’s a cheezy riddle that I remember from grade school.’

Uncle Snoopy has sent in the following:
‘The OED has about 100 words enging in -gry, though only the 40 I listed are neither proper nor hyphenated.
The “best” answer is not ogry, but simply gry .. a word proposed by Locke in his treatise on decimalizing the English counting system. It is also the sound that a pig makes in Australian English (presumably used to mean the same in England at one time … we Americans use “Oink”). Anyway, you could reasonably argue that gry is a “common word, but pretty much everyone in the world would gainsay your argument.’