cubby

• By this time the house began to be rather overrun with pets, so he built this room out of the dining room, with special cages--cubby-holes I call 'em--for the pets. —  The Curlytops and Their Pets or Uncle Toby's Strange Collection
• Our cubby was alive with signals. —  Wandl the Invader
• Such cubby-holes were not for him, he disdainfully reflected. —  Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer
• He knows as well as anything he ought not to put down in black and white how intolerably he hates the Chinaman, and yet he must sneak off to his cubby-hole and suck his pencil, and--and how is it Stevenson has it?--the 'agony of composition,' you remember. —  The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
• There must be a cosy corner somewhere, under the chutes, or in back of a staircase, or away up under the roof, where we can camp out while we are going through the mine You won't find the old breaker a very comfortable place to live in," suggested Canfield Oh, we can line the walls of some little cubby-hole with canvas if necessary, and you can string a wire in so as to give us electricity for heating and lighting, and we can live as comfortable as four bugs in a rug. —  The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier

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