Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A snug or cramped space or room.
- n. A small compartment.
- n. A category, especially an overly restrictive one.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A small, close apartment, or inclosed space; a closet, or any similar confined place; hence, humorously, a very small house; a cot.
Wiktionary
- n. A small, cramped room.
- n. A small compartment; a pigeonhole.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a small compartment.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small secluded room
- n. a small compartment
Etymologies
- cubby + hole (Wiktionary)
- From cub, pen, hutch (perhaps from Flemish cubbe, from Middle Flemish) + hole. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
““‘And this room you call the cubbyhole, does it have a separate key?’”
“Also at the cubbyhole is a nifty steampunk ocular set and cute PJs, and a ... skeleton hand ... thingie.”
“I slept in whatever kind of cubbyhole they had -- slept in Wayne's office at Anna Maria's -- and I'll tell you, I didn't miss what you call "the trappings of stardom" at all.”
“cubbyhole" with access to just one computer, phone line and printer, Wanzco said, adding that other departing lawmakers will have similar accommodations during the transition.”
“She kept a fifth in a cubbyhole behind the exhaust pipe above the stove and ate mustard greens and onions and sauerkraut to cover her breath.”
“However, many of the apartment complexes here in Kent and some of the exurbs at least in design appear like a co-housing design (lots of inner courtyards, some isolation from parked cars) than the concrete cubbyhole condos that infected the city during the reign of the egregious Greg Nichols.”
“Meanwhile, a Donilon move to the big office across the hall could open the way for NSC chief of staff Denis R. McDonough to move up out of the basement to Donilon's cubbyhole office.”
The Washington Post: Is national security deputy Donilon moving up?
“They followed him into a windowless cubbyhole with an old wooden desk and tall stacks of books piled against the walls.”
“When my wife was in the hospital, a doctor gave the woman in the cubbyhole next to us detailed instructions before her gynecologic surgery.”
The Huffington Post: Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: Little Privacy in Health Care -- Shame on Us
“Martin Eden, with blood still crawling from contact with his brother-in-law, felt his way along the unlighted back hall and entered his room, a tiny cubbyhole with space for a bed, a wash - stand, and one chair.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cubbyhole’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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In The Name Of All That Is Good And H...
Here you will find pieholes rather than piety. If you seek that which is holy, you must find the list In The Name Of All That Is Good And Holy... by uselessness.
piehole, doughnut hole, cakehole, the rabbit hole, hole in one, Swiss cheese, potatohole, three-hole punch, portable hole, hellhole, cholent, cholera and 89 more...
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miserable circumstances
describing living arrangements from the less-than-stellar, to the sordid
burrow, garret, ghetto, hovel, hut, lean-to, cavern, shack, shanty, shed, slum, tenement and 59 more...
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Words from books I've read
These are some words I didn't know when I read and now I want to know!
mortgage, fiddling, rage, kick, stroke, dodge, hunch, scratch, covetous, rank, trickle, budget and 179 more...
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that's just beastly!
cat-o-nine-tails, snake in the grass, puppy love, white elephant, crocodile tears, monkey business, keep the wolf fro..., culture vulture, black sheep of th..., scapegoat, ugly duckling, swan song and 260 more...
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effleurer's Words
languor, nincompoop, masquerade, envelop, deceit, guttersnipe, undulating, ululation, ridiculous, insufferable, loverly, eternity and 89 more...
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Holes
judas, judas-hole, hole, creephole, pinhole, spy-eye, blowhole, breathing-hole, spiracle, touchhole, mouth, cakehole and 166 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
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related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 441 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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elusivecritter's Words
penchant, verisimilitude, docent, bronx, wholesome, pizzle, illusion, shadow, anomaly, nonesuch, singular, bibelot and 9 more...
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