| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
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There are three English words ending with NGRY. Two of them
are angry and hungry, what is the third ?
The online dictionaries that I have tried do not have a third
word. Does anyone have the complete OED online ?
Evan.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1065.1 | We've been through this before... | OKFINE::KENAH | I���-) (���) {��^} {^�^} {���} /��\ | Wed Sep 01 1993 09:57 | 3 |
There are only two common English words ending in NGRY.
andrew
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| 1065.2 | FICTIONARY, anyone? | FORTY2::KNOWLES | DECspell snot awl ewe kneed | Wed Sep 08 1993 06:06 | 4 |
But on a bad day I might easily coin the word MALINGRY for a feeling
that might lead to malingering. Whoops, wrong note.
b
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| 1065.3 | SMURF::BINDER | Sapientia Nulla Sine Pecunia | Wed Sep 08 1993 07:24 | 6 | |
Given that malinger derives from the French malingre, a sickly person,
there's no `e' required between the `g' and the `r' and it's not much
of a stretch at all to get to malingry. I like it - it's a creative
and effective neologism. But a malingerer in English is a goldbrick,
not an authentically ill person, so it's a leetle shaky - but not so
much so that I'd eschew it.
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