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