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Subject: Re: 4 words ending with "dous"

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Date Posted: 18:43:56 01/31/07 Wed
In reply to: Rob Ward 's message, "Re: 3 words ending with "gry"" on 05:42:18 03/21/03 Fri

>aggry: aggry beads, according to various 19th-century
>writers, are coloured glass beads found buried in the
>ground in parts of Africa.
>begry: a 15th-century spelling of beggary.
>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'.
>gry: the name for a hundredth of an inch in a
>long-forgotten decimal system of measurement devised
>by the philosopher John Locke (and presumably
>pronounced to rhyme with `cry').
>higry-pigry: an 18th-century rendition of the drug
>hiera picra.
>iggry: an old army slang word meaning `hurry up',
>borrowed from Arabic.
>meagry: a rare obsolete word meaning `meagre-looking'.
>menagry: an 18th-century spelling of menagerie.
>nangry: a rare 17th-century spelling of angry.
>podagry: a 17th-century spelling of podagra, a medical
>term for gout.
>puggry: a 19th-century spelling of the Hindi word
>pagri (in English usually puggaree or puggree),
>referring either to a turban or to a piece of cloth
>worn around a sun-helmet.
>skugry: 16th-century spelling of the dialect word
>scuggery meaning `secrecy' (the faint echo of
>`skulduggery' is quite accidental!).

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