-Gry revisited.

Word Ways | May 1, 2008| | Copyright

Over the years, much has been written in Word Ways about words and names ending in the three letters--gry. Since these same three letters can also be. arranged in five other ways, I wondered whether any words existed that ended with these. A hunt through the Oxford English Dictionary turned up some items of interest.

GYR The OED appears to contain only two words ending in this combination--egyr and kongyr.

Egyr is a 14-15 century obsolete variant spelling of the adjective "eager". The OED has three illustrative quotations with this spelling, including 1485 ...

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