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Posted By: olly 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
Posted By: Faldage Re: New scrabble words - 11/01/12 11:09 AM
Great collection of words. But do you have to be playing in the county specified to count them?
Posted By: Candy Re: New scrabble words - 11/01/12 11:18 AM
Good find olly...some interesting words.

And pity you didnt run a hog round with one frown
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: New scrabble words - 11/01/12 03:02 PM
I'm impressed.
Wish I played Scrabble more often.
Posted By: olly Re: New scrabble words - 11/01/12 10:01 PM
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.
Posted By: Tromboniator Re: New scrabble words - 11/01/12 11:08 PM
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.
Posted By: Faldage Re: New scrabble words - 11/02/12 01:41 AM
The nowter's motto:

There's three kinds of people in this world. Those that count and those that don't count.
Posted By: Candy Re: New scrabble words - 11/02/12 10:37 AM
That sums it up nicely, Faldo.
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: New scrabble words - 11/02/12 10:55 AM
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.
Posted By: Candy Re: New scrabble words - 11/02/12 11:06 AM
In Oz we talk about Larakin, a likeable rouge. Is that similar to laikin Rhuby?
Posted By: Rhubarb Commando Re: New scrabble words - 11/02/12 03:51 PM
Dunno for sure - but I would have thought it unlikely, really - maybe tsuwm can help here ........ ?
Posted By: tsuwm Re: New scrabble words - 11/02/12 04:56 PM
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!
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: New scrabble words - 11/03/12 03:30 PM



Unlovely Words

ganch
v. to impale upon hooks

glunch
v. a sullen look

thrunch
adj. much displeased

dretch
v. to trouble in sleep
Posted By: Jackie Re: New scrabble words - 11/08/12 05:25 AM
Neat words, olls--thanks! Here, Meemaw is one of the several pet names for a grandmother.
Posted By: LukeJavan8 Re: New scrabble words - 11/08/12 05:36 PM
Miley Cyrus used it for her grandmother on the
Disney's Hanna Montana kids show.
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