cubbyhole
Americannoun
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a small enclosed space or room
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any small compartment, such as a pigeonhole
Etymology
Origin of cubbyhole
Example Sentences
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Previosly voted Wales' favourite word, Cwtch means hug or cuddle - however it's second meaning is a cubbyhole or cupboard; a small space in which to store things safely.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024
And when you sneeze in one cubbyhole, a stranger in another calls out, “Bless you.”
From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2022
They traveled in the same direction from the Oval Office to their offices in the northwest corner of the White House, which shared a cubbyhole bathroom.
From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2020
The team didn’t even have an office, so Thorrington worked from a borrowed cubbyhole on the third floor of a building in West Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2019
After he'd retreated into Mr. Carver's cubbyhole, Ross Wilcox and Gary Drake got busy whispering round the hard kids and the in-between kids.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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