Editing -gry puzzle (section)

==Answers==
Various proposed answers exist, stating that the question is one of the following:
* A [[hoax]]&nbsp;– there is no answer, and its purpose (or effect) is to frustrate.<ref name="safire1980">{{cite journal |author-link=William Safire |first=William |last=Safire |title=On Language: Ending with "gry" |journal=The New York Times Magazine |date=27 July 1980 |pages=8–10}}, reprinted in {{cite book |title=What's the Good Word? |author-link=William Safire |first=William |last=Safire |year=1982 |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=dOT8okA-dCQC&q=gry p. 63–64], 'ending with "gry"'}}</ref>
* A [[trick question]], with various answers depending on precise wording.
* A sincere question asking for an obscure word, most often proposed as {{linktext|aggry}} or {{linktext|puggry}}.  This does not apply to wordings that explicitly ask for a very common word.
* A corruption of a more straightforward word puzzle, namely a word containing the sequence "gry", though not necessarily at the (tail) end, in which case the answer is {{linktext|gryphon}} which is uncommon but in use.<ref name="usenix1983"/><ref>{{cite web | last=Beard | first=Robert | title=The Third English Word Ending on "gry"
 | website=facstaff.bucknell.edu | url=http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/gry.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606015436/http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/gry.html | archive-date=June 6, 2017 | url-status=dead }}, quotes a Rush Elkins who heard it in 1969 or 1970 at the University of Florida, in which case appearing anywhere in the word was ok, and later realized that it was ''gryphon''.</ref><ref>{{cite newsgroup |newsgroup=rec.puzzles |url=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.puzzles/a7tX-zTO_yw |title=gry words |date=October 1, 1995}}</ref>

This topic is a source of lively interest, both to lovers of word puzzles and lovers of words. For both groups, much of the appeal lies in the [[quest]], either to trace the origin of the puzzle or compile a complete list of words ending in ''-gry''.

More recently, the word ''hangry''—a [[portmanteau]] of 'hungry' and 'angry'—has been used to refer to an irritable state induced by lack of food.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Salis|first1=Amanda|title=The science of 'hangry:' Why some people get grumpy when they're hungry|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/20/health/science-behind-being-hangry/|website=CNN|access-date=27 May 2016|date=July 20, 2015}}</ref>  Oxford Dictionaries (controlled by, but less restrictive than, the [[Oxford English Dictionary]]) added ''hangry'' on 27 August 2015,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lexico.com/|title=English Dictionary, Thesaurus, & Grammar Help &#124; Lexico.com|website=Lexico Dictionaries &#124; English|access-date=2020-04-19|archive-date=1998-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981206143509/http://www.lexico.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/4010748/oxford-dictionary-update-2015/|title=Oxford Dictionaries Adds 'Fat-Shame{{sic|,'|hide=y}} 'Butthurt' and 'Redditor'|magazine=Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Compton | first=Lindsey | title='Wine o'clock{{sic|,'|hide=y}} 'cat cafe{{sic|,'|hide=y}} 'hangry' added to Oxford dictionary | website=chicagotribune.com | date=August 27, 2015 | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/hangry-wine-o-clock-new-food-words-oxford-dictionary-story.html}}</ref> and the full Oxford English Dictionary added ''hangry'' in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://public.oed.com/blog/january-2018-update-new-words-notes/|title=New words notes January 2018|date=January 25, 2018|website=Oxford English Dictionary}}</ref>