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Feb 27, 2009 12:17


Is this a retardedly obscure riddle, or….wtf?

Apart from 'angry' and 'hungry', what other English word ends in '-gry'?

"conyngry": a 17th-century spelling of the obsolete word conynger, meaning 'rabbit warren', which survives in old English field names such as 'Conery' and 'Coneygar'.

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rcolmn February 27 2009, 21:02:09 UTC
Do a google search on this one - the riddle you wrote is missing a lot more words than the one I'm used to seeing...

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ornithocheirus February 27 2009, 22:27:52 UTC
All the more reason I want the asshats that wrote the one I got to be lashed.

"RABBIT WARDEN" ... I am seriously gonna whoop someone's ass.

Tonight at the Silverlake Lounge:

ETHEREAL CRIME BARGE

-and-

CHUNKSTERTOAST

w/ special guests

RABBIT WARDEN

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ornithocheirus February 27 2009, 22:43:16 UTC
One correction: it appears it is actually rabbit "WARREN," and not "WARDEN"...whatever the fuck that means.

Actually, it appears a rabbit WARREN is defined as:

rabbit warren - a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits

This becomes mroe frustrating by the moment.

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ornithocheirus February 27 2009, 22:46:52 UTC
Oh...GOD..!

It appears there are cartoons dedicated to rabbit warrens! They are just SO HILARIOUS! SO HILARIOUS!

http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/r/rabbit_warren.asp

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neutrino_cannon February 28 2009, 01:21:50 UTC
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/gry?view=uk

They're all obsolete and/or loanwords. I don't think it's a normal English phoneme.

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