Hubnuggets, hubnuggeteers...and the rest of the lingo defined!
A Dictionary of our own!
After thoroughly researching some of our common words used continually here in Hubland I am totally appalled at the many spelling mistakes and misappropriate definitions the everyday run of the mill dictionaries and encyclopedias have. Seriously the Oxford, Britannica, Roget's, Webster and even our beloved Wikipedia do not give us, the Hubbers, a clue to the proper uses of the words that are exclusive to Hubpages.
Noticing this, I took it upon myself to correct this terrible neglect.
Therefore I'm pleased to announce the dictionary all of our own, called
Hub-ctionary pronounced ==> hub-K-shhonaree with a strong emphasis on the 'K'. It will go into print sooner or later. Naturally it will
get revised every year or so. It will be available in large print only
one word and definition per page. An easy book to read and memorize. Here are some tasters of the more common hubland words and definitions used by hubbers day-to-day which can be found in the Hub-ctionary:
Let's start at the beginning!
- Hub-institute: The name the big kahunas were debating of calling Hubpages. It got nixed for fear of only hub-nuts joining.
- Hubber: A person writing a hub.
- Hubbit: Another name for the person that writes hubs (but these ones are short usually not taller then 3' 4.5"). Kind-a-cute, some famous ones can be seen in the movie 'Lord of the rings'.
- Hub-licist: A fancy name again for a hubber who has some published hubs.
- Hub: To every-one's surprise not the center of the wheel but
an article written by a hubber, hubbit or hub-licist on an interesting topic filled with original content. Written from the hubbers experience or point of view. About 750-1000 words or so is a good length. Best with an attention grabbing title. Spelling and grammar checked. For best results the content should be emphasize with some photos and/or a relevant video. Naturally giving photo/video source acknowledgements. Should also have links and RSS feeds.
- Hubrides: A group of 500 or so islands of the coast of Scotland. The dictionaries spells it Hebrides (who ever heard of something so silly). Plans are being hashed out at the moment for Hubbers to congregate there for the 10th- Hub-versary. If I'm not mistaken the official title of our own writers 'Woodstock' will be called Hub-appaloosa. (It's still a secret so shhh you didn't hear that from me)
- Hubernate: Hubbers getting ready to spend the winter in a dormant hub writing state.
- Hubitable: A place object or deed that can be turned into a Hub-tastic hub.
- Hubitate for humanity: Extending help to our fellowman/woman worldwide by offering advice, help etc. in our written hubs.
- Hubitis: a condition that takes over the body and soul and can only be relieved by writing hubs.
- Hub-llness: A new disease coming from too much hubbing.
- Hub-mprove: The cure for hub-llness...simple to do...just spend more time hubbing.
- Hubble: To walk away lamely from the computer after many hours of hubbing.
- Hubmania: A bunch of Hubpages fans getting together, possibly in the Hubrides.
- Hub-nob: again the spelling is off in the dictionaries for this one (hobnob) simply means to rub elbows with all the other elite hubbers in the Hubpages forums.
- Hub-dentical: A stolen plagiarized hub that was re-published by a hub-thief under his/her name.
- Hub-dentify: Proof the plagiarized hub is yours and that it has been hub-napped.
- Hub-law: Hubpages terms of use including forums etiquette.
- Hub-idle: A totally inactive abandoned hub.
- Hub-licity: Public exposure for hubs using RSS feeds, twitter, facebook etc.
- Hub-cap: Again nothing to do with the wheel cover of car
tires. No, it's a cap worn when hubbing, often referred to as a
thinking cap. (soon coming to a market near you)
See each of the team members modeling this seasons new arrivals.
- Hub-loyees: A name for the hubpages staff.
The two Hub-loyees of our hubnugget team are
Maddie Rudd, who is the Hub Pages Moderator and Communicator of Awesome
Fairness and Jason Menayan, who is head Guru of Marketing. Both along
with their regular duties take care of the technical mumbo jumbo stuff
that has to be done to have a smooth running 'hubnugget wannabe
department'.
- Hub-nugget-picker-Team: (nugget-pickers for short) All the members of the team (I'm proud to be a part of) wade through thousands of hubs on a weekly basis to find some promising hub-nugget wannabes. The team consist of our team leader Shirley Anderson, Patty Inglish, B.T. Evilpants, RedElf, Ripplemaker, and myself Zsuzsy Bee.
Let me introduce our fearless team leader here in hub-nugget-picker-land Shirley
Anderson. She's a busy, busy great career freelance writer filled with pep and energy. But then you know what they say '...if you need a job done pronto give it to a busy person'. Hence the new addition to her career. Modeling for the Hub-cap-building-company. Here seen in the new and improved basic proto type cap.
Patty Inglish, MS is a Freelance writer and a master of Hub-ology. On most days she dishes out two
fantastic hubs. She also finds hubnugget
wannabes by the dozen every week. Patty is seen in the picture to the right wearing her thinking cap in a sassy maroon shade with built in blinking ideas light-bulb. But the ideas flit in so fast that the light-bulb doesn't have time to shut off. Which makes the blinking light-bulb not blink.
B.T. EvilPants, who is a Freelance writer, Jackalope-of-all-trades, connoisseur of butter tarts and gravy has the extra strength and ability to sniff out new hubnuggeteers and the best of their best hubs to add to the list of hubnugget wannabes especially when he's sporting his He-man yellow Hub-cap.
Modeled with great finesse in the picture to the right.
RedElf is
an accomplished artist, singer/songwriter, author, a poet and a photographer.
She is one of those happily creative people who just loves to try out
new challenges all the time. Hence her new stint into modeling. What other color would a RedElf be wearing than dashing red. Her Hub-cap is filled with ideas all the time too as can be seen in the picture to the right.
She utilizes her whisker twitches well as they notify her whenever there is a purrrfect hubnugget within reach.
Ripplemaker who is a hubber extraordinaire. To make it easier for her to flit from hub to hub and spreads joy, good will and encouragement to new hubnuggeteers the Hub-cap-building-company has designed a flyer-cap just for her. The flyer-cap which is in its final test runs will be on the market soon and available in all colors.
Here is to many happy flying hours Ripplemaker, glad you're not afraid of great heights.
Zsuzsy Bee is a freelance/ghost writer, tailor, cloth artist, gardener, now also chicken and duck herder and Mom. As you can see in the picture to the right the Hub-caps come in an assortment of sizes, colors and styles. She is sporting this seasons new color and stylish Pom-Pom. She will have to learn how to read so she can order the right size next time.
All hub-caps are available with or without personalized rayon embroidered names, logos etc.
- Hub-nugget-wannabe: is a great hub written within the past seven days by a new, less then two months old hubber. It is then chosen by the team and added onto the list of the current week's HubNuggets ready for the contest. Although this list of new hubber hubs is vast (thousands and thousands of hubs), the team narrows the number of choices down to just ten. Those ten finalists are then showcased in the weekly HubNuggets hub, whereupon open voting begins via a poll capsule.
- Hub-nuggeteer: A new hubber, hubbit or hub-licist, with other words a writer who is less then six weeks old who wrote a hub-tastic hub-nugget-wannabe.
- Hub-tastic: A well written hub by a hubber or hubbit or hub-licist.
The how's, the who's , the why's, the what's to be eligible. (including your hat size)
To be eligible for HubNugget consideration, you must have joined hubpages within the last 60 days, and have an author score of 75 or above. Your hub must have been published within the last 7 days, and have a hub score of 55 or above. That's it!
Now you may be asking how you can achieve all of that when you're still just a Hub-nuggeteer learning your way around here.
This is how: Build a hub with well written, original content. Next, add a few relevant photosvideo. Add a news feed if you like. Move your capsules around to create an attractive layout, and preview your handy work. Check for spelling and grammar booboos. Now all that's left to do is hit that "publish" button, and watch your score rise. Your friends at Hub-Central will do the rest! and/or a
If you want more detailed information, Shirley Anderson (our Team leader extraordinaire) has written a hub on the whole process. You can find it here. or here http://hubpages.com/hub/HubNuggets-How-To
So read and vote... the new hubnuggeteers and hubnugget wannabes are counting on you...
Without any further ado here are this weeks hubnugget wannabes as always just great:
Choices, choices, choices....
How will you vote this week?
The Winners are DRUMROLL Please ...
The winners!
20% http://hubpages.com/hub/Susan-G-Komen-3-Day-Breast-Cancer-Walk
16% http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-Has-the-Elderly-Lost-Societys-Respect
9% http://hubpages.com/hub/how-to-make-pancakes-for-pancake-day
88 People have voted. Congrats to all the Hubnuggeteers. These were really fabulous hubs this week.
Hub words about other exiting going-ons here on Hubpages!
Hub-Mob and Hub-Mobbing: The explanations can be found here==> http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Write-a-HubMob-Hub , contact Princessa or find out more here http://hubpages.com/elite/
Hub-Challengers: Find out what the 30 in 30 means here==> http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/17849 or contact Darkside or here http://hubpages.com/elite/ for more answers.
Hub-Greeters: All the details about Hubpages Welcome Wagon are here ==> http://hubpages.com/elite/
Comments
Loved the hub words in our hub-tionary. Thanks, Zsuzsy Bee.
I need a personal editor, I can see other peoples mistakes, but mine just don't jump out at me so I am always am asking my english major friends to read over my work!!!! I would love some recognition to I just wrote a piece on AHDH which was a labor of love
I love reading this hub lingo list! And I really enjoy watching out for the latest hubnuggets
Thanks Zsuzsy, at last I know what HubNuggets is all about!
VERY entertaining! I enjoyed this one! I mentioned you in my latest hub.....Best, G
Thanks for all the information on Hubs. I should of joined Hubnuggets when I first joined. My lost.
Zsuzsy ...This was fun and quite creative!
I liked the way you organized everything, I knew very little about the Hub-ctionary! Great to know we even have our own Hub-guage! Really,thank you for sharing with so much fun added!
Thumbs up!
warm regards and blessings,
Al
Congrats to all the Wannabes. You all deserve a vote, but I had to decide on one, so I did. Good luck to you all.
I voted! By the way, where the heck is my hub-cap?
And now for some HubNugget predictions:
I predict that Zsuzsy Bee will get a terrible cold (sorry. I think it's in the cards).
I also predict that the next winner will have more votes than anyone else.
My final prediction is that the Jackalope needs to clean out his shower drain.
Hubtastic! Hubtacular! Hubberific! Do I get to keep the hub-cap?
I read and I voted. I know I'm late, but I didn't want to catch your cold! I just hope you don't think I'm hubnoxious for keeping my distance.
Hubba Hubba Zsuzsy! My contribution for a hot and provocative hub. =:)
Voted! Loved the dictionary, giggled myself to death!
Voted, did my Hubduty. Zsusy, I hope you feel better!
Go MissMaudie!!!! Long Live...er...PANCAKE DAY!!
Great information Zsuzsy Bee, I voted also. thank you for sharing.Godspeed. creativeone59
Voted. A huge grats to all writers some fantastic material here.
I voted, when do we find out who the winner is?
Great job on composing this hub while you were ill Zsuzsy! Hope you are feeling better and thanks for all the hard work that you do :)
WOW, I'm in A W E... just a humble HUBABEE,
Great information, I have learned something today :)
Thanks and Peace :) katie
Thanks Zsuzsy Bee for (1) a hub-tionary for a hubber to use and (2) the gathering of the hugnuggets!
I like the Hub-ctionary and would love to contribute the word HubTribe- meaning a forum place where ex-hippies, radical nobodys and alternate life-style nuts go to relax around the cyber campfire, eat, dance, eat, chat, drink & eat, and talk about the good old days as well as what we're doing now. We specialize in canned cheese, cheetos, beer and slim-jims, other gourmet treats now and then. It is not exclusive at all - people say they "join" but there is no real organization there, just good, grimey, fun! Hope we make your Hub-ctionary!
Hubbit. Hehehehe. Well, I'm not THAT little, but I'm only 5 feet tall so maybe I'm a sorta Hubber/Hubbit cross. Grand Hubbit, maybe?
This was a super fun read. Good luck to all the Hubnugget Wannabes from a former Hubnuggeteer. (Is that proper language usage?) :)
Thanks for clarifying the lingo!
So this Hub-lingo suggests that old Hubbers are destined, eventually, for the Hub-tuary. Great Hub!
Zsuzdy Bee - very enterprising. Now how do you distribute copies for each of
us Hubbers as we write our daily, weekly, monthly contribution? A fun doing. Good for you. David Russell
What about word Hubnoob for hubpages newbie ? Voted as well.
I am looking forward to the hub-ictionary and I voted! :)
Great Job. This hub certainly clears things up for me as far as who people are in the hub world. Thanks for the help. I love the pictures. I needed a good laugh. This hub is hub-tastic!
Voted, good choices and thank you Ms Zsuzsy, Maita
Thank you Zsuzsy, I will check them one by one and I will voter after reading all, Have a good day! Maita
Thank you for the Hub-nom, exciting for a Hub Noob.
How exciting! Is there a name for us baby hubbers? Hublets perhaps or Hubnugglets? We're all here stuffing our faces with all the information that you grown up hubbers are feeding us ready for the day when we can be grown up ourselves and pass on tidbits. Thanks so much for choosing one of my hubs, I'm humbled (there's a pun in there somewhere but I can quite get it out, I'm still a baby :))
Voted. Btw the Hubpages team could organize a trip to Hubrides, which should be an interesting place to see. Lol. :)
Great hubs! I had to sit and think about my vote for a bit, but while all the articles were great, I knew I could only pick one.
Great hubs, one and all! Thanks for sharing!
They are, in fact, hubtastic! :)
Wow I am totally stunned.
voted - hard choice as I enjoyed my read. Good luck everyone
I'm pretty lucky it seems. Now if I could only get organic traffic i'd make more than a penny a day O.o
Art, since you signed up as Tatto Guy 2 months ago, your hub is amongst the list of newbies LOL But that comment is so sweet of you... :) Happy hearts day!
VOTED already...as usual it was a tough choice since all the Hubnuggets are wonderful!
Thanks.
Thanks so much for nominating my hub for a HubNugget!
It sure feels good to get all this recognition during my first weeks here on HubPages :D
Cheers for the nomination but as I have been about for ages it wud be unfair for to me to win so plz vote for somebody else !
wooooooowwwwwww...hats off to you for the Hub-ctionary! Getting ready to ride my hubmobile and go hubhopping! Hmmmm should we include that in your Hub-ctionary??? Hahahahahahha
On my way ... and oh, I love those caps! You guys give me the greatest and coolest gadgets too...I should one day write a hub about this! Hugs and take care and get well fast! :)
Terrific, thank you all. It gets hard to choose!
I came, I read, I voted.
Terrific choices again this week. You guys don't make the selection process easy.
Thank you so much for all your appreciation!!!
Means so much for me!
Hub-lelujah! Another great Hub, Zsus! I love my new modeling job, by the way! So many tasty nuggets from which to choose this week, too, it was hard to choose. Well, hearty Hub-gratulations to all the nominees, and thanks again, ZsuZsy Bee! Gotta run - I'm trying get a snapshot of ripplemaker in her propeller cap, but man is she fast! There she goes again!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who voted!!! It means alot to someone that never thought to publish anything..online or otherwise. Stay Blessed everyone in your writing and your future endeavors. -Terrilyn (Telynisblessed)
Congrats to all of our Wannabes this week. You are all hubalicious!
Zsuzsy, this is fantastic! I love that you've brought attention to the Hub-ctionary. Now, we can all speak the same language.
I'm a little surprise that you're showing the spring line so early. You must be anticipating a busy hat buying season. It's so nice that you styled one with a propeller for Ripplemaker!
Zsuzsy Bee, cheri, thank you for this timeless explanation of Hub-diggety-hog HubPages terminology. Everyone will want to bookmark this one!
By the by - how did you find my cap in my closet? B.T. EvilBonnet must have sneaked in during my nap! LOL...I must switch to energy-saving bulbs, too.
Congratulations to all the selected writers this week - Happy Weekend!
voted and I read them all, nice sets of HubNuggets, Thank you
I am glad I am the first one to read this one, I am glad youre ok now!! I will surely read all the articles here and I will vote thereafter!
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