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Cubbyhole   Listen
noun
Cubbyhole, Cubby  n.  A snug or confined or secluded place; a small room or a snug space within a room.
Synonyms: snuggery, snug.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Cubbyhole" Quotes from Famous Books



... a secret drawer, but there were little hidden cubby-holes—three or four of them. I remember, now, your father once showed me how they opened. They were little places where the Roman Catholics used to hide the pages of their mass-books and such like in the days of ...
— The Inn at the Red Oak • Latta Griswold

... cubby-hole in the rear of the Spring street saloon where "Slim" Gray, Cummings' lieutenant, had returned to him the $10 he had put up in bail and $10 as compensation for having been on hand when Gibson made ...
— Spring Street - A Story of Los Angeles • James H. Richardson

... homestead was built in the days when folks believed reverently in attics. Not little cubby-holes under the roof but in generous, well-lighted, nicely-floored affairs that less reverent generations have turned into smoking dens, studios ...
— Green Valley • Katharine Reynolds



Words linked to "Cubbyhole" :   compartment, room, pigeonhole, cubby, snug



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