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Found this list in todays NZ Herald online. Any of which could have been a candidate for Hoggys.
Endangered words to become officially playable in Scrabble, by region:
Devon:
Zowpeg, Zowpig - woodlouse
Quaazy - unwell
Gleanies - guinea fowl
East Yorkshire:
Swaal - throw, chuck
Twag - play truant
Scaal - to spread over the ground (eg muck)
Cumbria:
Darrack - a day's work
Whick - living, alive - not dead
Lancashire:
Marlock - to play, joke, prank
Meemaw - an antic, grotesque action, expression of freedom
Layrock - skylark or lark
Lincolnshire:
Skelled - tipped
Arrad - tired
Splawder - to walk or run awkwardly and inefficiently, to spread over
Hotchin - a hedgehog
Gawster - to laugh helplessly
Nowter - a nobody, someone who does not count
Norfolk:
Tizzick - cough
Pishamire - ant
Swidge - small puzzle
Northumberland:
Stangy - tailor
Norration - confused noise, disturbance
Kent:
Pogger - compulsive worrier
Boboy - human figure, scarecrow
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Great collection of words. But do you have to be playing in the county specified to count them?
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Good find olly...some interesting words. And pity you didnt run a hog round with one 
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I'm impressed.
Wish I played Scrabble more often.
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Great collection of words. But do you have to be playing in the county specified to count them?
I'd imagine you'd have to know the words first and then verify them with the 'official' scrabble book 'o' words.
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I've run across pismire before, in Shakespeare, I think, for ant, and I believe ptisic (tizzick) as well, meaning consumption, tuberculosis. I like quaazy and splawder and, especially, nowter.
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The nowter's motto:
There's three kinds of people in this world. Those that count and those that don't count.
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That sums it up nicely, Faldo.
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It's a interesting list - somemof the words are familiar to me - especially the ones from the northern counties. I've never heard "Marlock" in Lancashire, though. Possibly it's common in the southern part of the county. Up here, in Northn Lancashire, they are more likely to say "laikin" for play, practical joke, etc. It is even more common in WestYorkshire. The word is Scandinavian, and in current usage in Denmark - prolly parts of Norway, too.
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In Oz we talk about Larakin, a likeable rouge. Is that similar to laikin Rhuby?
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Dunno for sure - but I would have thought it unlikely, really - maybe tsuwm can help here ........ ?
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I am familiar with larrikin : link which seems to be the Aussie equivalent of hooligan. I dunno about laikin - that sounds like a dog peeing on a bush!
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Unlovely Words
ganch
v. to impale upon hooks
glunch
v. a sullen look
thrunch
adj. much displeased
dretch
v. to trouble in sleep
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Neat words, olls--thanks! Here, Meemaw is one of the several pet names for a grandmother.
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Miley Cyrus used it for her grandmother on the
Disney's Hanna Montana kids show.
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