New scrabble words - 11/01/12 12:55 AM
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
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