[edit] Words and names that end in -gry
[edit] A list of names and words ending in -gry, many of which are obsolete, archaic, or simply uncommon.
References, in brackets, correspond to the bibliography, "Sources Consulted."
affect-hungry [OED (see "sado-masochism")]
aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
agry / Agry:
Agry [OED (see "snappily")]
Agry [GNS]
Agry Dagh (Mount Agry) [EB/11:15:682 (as "Agry-dagh"); Partridge/2 (as "Agry Dagh"); Stieler:49 R18 and Stieler/Index:3 (as "Agry-Dag")]
ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
air-hungry [OED (see "Tel Avivian")]
angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
Badagry [Johnston; EB/11; GNS; OED (see "Dahoman")]
Bagry [GNS]
Ballingry [Bartholomew:40; CLG:151; GNS; RD:164, pl.49]
begry [OED:1:770,767]
Bellangry [GNS]
Beregovyye Langry [GNS]
bewgry [OED:1:1160]
Bol’shiye Tugry (GNS]
"boongry maugry" [Partridge/2] — created by Partridge, for purposes of satire, from bongre maugre, willy-nilly; cf. maugry
boroughmongry [OED (see "boroughmonger")]
bowgry [OED:1:1160]
braggry [OED:1:1047]
Bugry — cf. Chistyye Bugry, Golyye Bugry, Peschanyye Bugry [GNS; Times/IG]
Bungry — see Hungry Bungry
Chagry [GNS]
Changry [GNS]
Chistyye Bugry [GNS]
Chockpugry [Worcester]
Cogry [BBC]
cony-gry [OED:2:956]
conyngry [OED:2:956]
cottagry [OED (see "cottagery")]
croftangry / Croftangry:
croftangry [OED (see "way")]
Croftangry — Mr. Chrystal Croftangry, fictitious editor of The Chronicles of Canongate, by Sir Walter Scott, 1827–28. The Chronicles of Canongate is an inclusive title for Scott's novels, The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers, and The Fair Maid of Perth, to which the author attached the fiction that they were written by Mr. Chrystal Croftangry, who draws on the recollections of his old friend, Mrs. Bethune Baliol, a resident in the Canongate, Edinburgh. Mr. Croftangry's own story, notable among Scott's shorter sketches, forms an introduction to the Chronicles. [Barnhart:1:1134; Freeman/1:101; Freeman/2:109; OCEL/5:241,197,461; Scott:2:234-329; Walsh:110] — "a pseudonym of Sir Walter Scott; the name of the imaginary editor of his "Chronicles of the Canongate." [Wheeler:88]
de Pélegry — see Pélegry
diamond-hungry [OED (see "Lorelei")]
dog-hungry [W2]
dogge-hungry [OED (see "canine")]
Dygry [GNS]
Dshagry [Stieler]
Džagry [Andrees:43 (141 L 7)]
Dzhagry [GNS; OSN/42:2:325; Times/7:61 (44 G8); Times/IG:233 (44 G8)]
eard-hungry [CED (see "yird"); CSD]
Echanuggry [Century:103-104, on inset map, Key 104 M 2]
Égry [DNCF:376; France(?); GNSl; OSN/83:1:335; Times/IG:239
euer-angry [OED (see "ever")]
ever-angry [W2]
fenegry [OED (see "fenugreek")]
fire-angry [W2]
Gagry — cf. Novyye Gagry [EB/11; GNS]
Garrynagry [GNS]
girl-hungry [OED (see "girl")]
Golyye Bugry [GNS]
gonagry [OED (see "gonagra")]
gry / Gry / GRY:
gry (from Latin gry) [OED:4/2:475; W2]
gry (from Romany grai) [W2]
Gry (given name: Gry Bagøien, alias Gry, a female singer from Denmark) [Wiki]
gry / GRY acronyms, initialisms, and abbreviations:
GRY — Granada, Spain (airport symbol) [AIAD:1403]
gry — abbr. gray [ADA]
GRY — Gray Drug Stores, Inc. (New York Stock Exchange delisted symbol) [AIAD:1403]
GRY — abbr. all cap. Grayling Air Service, Grayling, Alaska (TAH [The Airline Handbook] code) [TAH:281]
GRY — abbr. Greymouth, New Zealand (seismograph station code, United States Geological Survey); closed [AIAD:1403; Poppe]
GRY — abbr. Greystoke Exploration (Vancouver Stock Exchange symbol [AIAD:1403]
GRY — abbr. all cap. Grimsey, Iceland (airport symbol) [AIAD:1403; OAG]
haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
half-angry [W2]
hangry [OED:1:329]
heart-angry [W2]
heart-hungry [W2]
higry pigry [OED:5/1:285]
hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
hound-hungry [OED (see "hound")]
houngry [OED (see "minx")]
huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
hund-hungry [OED (see "hound")]
hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
Hungry Bungry [DI]
hwngry [OED (see "quart")]
"igry" [Partridge/2] — from "... igry slov of the Slavs." — created by Partridge for purposes of satire
iggry [OED]
Jagry [EB/11:23-874 (II. D4)]
job-hungry [OED (see "gadget")]
Kagry [GNS]
kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
Kiegry [GNS]
land-hungry [OED; W2]
Langry — cf. Beregovyye Langry, Novyye Langry [GNS; Times/7; Times/IG]
leather-hungry [OED]
ledderhungry [OED (see "leather")]
life-hungry [OED (see "music")]
Lisnagry [Bartholomew:489; GNS]
Longry [GNS]
losengry [OED (see "losengery")]
MacLoingry — surname, of Irish origin; e.g., Flaithbhertach MacLoingry, bishop of Clonmacnois (1038) [Cotton, Phillips:613]
mad-angry [OED:6/2:14]
mad-hungry [OED:6/2:14]
magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
malgry [OED:6/2:247]
Malyye Tugry [GNS]
man-hungry [OED]
managry [OED (see "managery")]
mannagry [OED (see "managery")]
Margry [Indians (see "Pierre Margry" in bibliog., v.2, p.1204)]
maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
meagry [OED:6/2:267]
meat-hungry [W2; OED (see "meat")]
Megry [GNS]
menagry [OED (see "managery")]
messagry [OED]
music-hungry [OED (see "music")]
Myagry [GNS]
nangry [OED]
Novyye Gagry [GNS]
Novyye Langry [GNS]
"nugry" / Nugry:
"nugry" — regular readers of the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles coined this word to describe a (presumably) new reader who posts a frequently asked question
Nugry [GNS]
overangry [RH1; RH2]
Pélegry [CE (in main index as "Raymond de Pélegry")]
Peschanyye Bugry [GNS]
Peshungry [GNS]
pigry — see higry pigry
Pingry [Bio-Base; HPS:293-94, 120-21]
Podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
Pongry [Andree (Supplement, p.572)]
pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
Povengry [GNS]
power-hungry [OED (see "power")]
profit-hungry [OED (see "profit")]
puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
red-angry [OED (see "sanguineous")]
rungry [EDD:5:188]
scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
Schtschigry [GNS; LG/1:2045; OSN:97]
Seagry — cf. Upper Seagry [EB/11:28:698a; GNS; Times/IG:762]
Ségry [Andrees:152 (87/88 B 3); GNS; Johnston]
self-angry [W2]
selfe-angry [OED (see "self-")]
Semibugry [GNS]
sensation-hungry [OED (see "sensation")]
sex-angry [OED (see "sex")]
sex-hungry [OED (see "cave")]
Shchegry [GNS]
Shchigry [CLG:1747; GNS; Johnson:594; OSN:97,206; Times/7:185,pl.45]
shiggry [EDD]
Shtchigry [LG/1:2045; LG/2:1701]
Shtshigry [Lipp]
sight-hungry [OED (see "sight")]
Sillegry [GNS]
skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
Skugry [GNS]
Ssemibugry [GNS]
Suchigry [GNS]
Sygry [Andree]
Tangry [France; GNS]
Tchangry [Johnson:594; LG/1:435,1117]
Tchigry [Johnson:594]
tear-angry [W2]
th'angry [OED (see "shot-free")]
tike-hungry [CSD]
tingry / Tingry:
tingry [OED (see "parquet")]
Tingry [France; EB/11 (under "Princesse de Tingry"); GNS]
toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry"; but all entries are capitalized)]
Tugry — cf. Bol’shiye Tugry, Malyye Tugry [GNS]
"ugry" / Ugry:
"ugry" [Partridge/2] — from "... white ugry of history." — created by Partridge for purposes of satire — probably a reference to "Ugri Bielii, tribe : see Khazars, race." [EB/11:15:774b, 23:525a, 23:883d]
Ugry [GNS]
ulgry — modern form of Vlgrie (word form not actually found, but the existence of which is inferred), an animal (not specifically identified): "a coat made of ulgry's hair...." [Partridge/1 (as "ulgry"); Scheetz (as "ulgry" and "Vlgrie"); Smith:24-25 (as "Vlgrie" and "Vlgries")]
unangry [OED; W2]
Ungry [GNS]
Upper Seagry [GNS]
vergry [OED:12/1:123]
Vigry [CLG:2090]
vngry [OED (see "wretch")]
Wągry [GNS]
war-hungry [OED (see "war")]
Wegry:
Wegry [GNS]
Węgry [GNS]
WGRY — all cap. call letters of a radio station in Grayling, Michigan. [...]
Wigry [CLG:2090; GNS; NAP:xxxix; Times/7:220, pl.62; WA:948]
wind-hungry [W2]
Yagry [GNS]
yeard-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
yerd-hungry [CED (see "yird"); OED]
yird-hungry [CED (see "yird")]
Ymagry [OED:1:1009 (col. 3, 1st "boss" verb), (variant of "imagery")]
Zygry [GNS]