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—and two of them are angry and hungry, so people keep writing to the lexicographers at G.&C. Merriam to ask about the third, but all they can find is anhungry, an obsolete word for hungry, which stays in the dictionary because Shakespeare used it—

Stop! Enough!

—unless you count puggry, which is a variant spelling of pugaree, which is a scarf wound around a sun helmet.

Adoxography, in case you were wondering, is a word defined as "writing cleverly on a trivial subject."

— By Otto Friedrich