Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little house, as a doll-house, built by children in play.

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Examples

  • And all the time, we're in the middle of Andrew's new cubby-house business getting off the ground.

    Archive 2007-09-01 appleleaf 2007

  • And all the time, we're in the middle of Andrew's new cubby-house business getting off the ground.

    The bead necklace of life appleleaf 2007

  • The culprit was soon discovered in the corner of the kitchen cupboard, which she called-her "cubby-house," engaged in lecturing Fudge for running away with Angelina.

    Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir Mary Catherine Crowley

  • "It would make a nice cubby-house to play in," thought Mun Bun.

    Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope

  • The head of the family slept in a cubby-house of hurdle, hung from a tie-beam of the roof and supported on a pole below.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • Many are rather like the cubby-house we made at the end of the orchard last summer; only the walls are thick enough to stand a high explosive shell.

    Mr. Britling Sees It Through 1906

  • Betty remembered playing with her dolls in this pleasant little corner on rainy days, years before, and revived its old name of the "cubby-house."

    Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • You can keep on having the cubby-house for a very private study, and I know you could write beautifully on the rainy days, when the elm branches make such a nice noise on the roof.

    Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • As midsummer came on the cubby-house grew too hot for comfort, but one afternoon, when rain had been falling all the morning to cool the high roof, Mary Beck and Betty sat there together in great comfort and peace.

    Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • When dinner was over, papa was enticed up to see the cubby-house, while the aunts took their nap.

    Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

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