cubbyhole

American  

[kuhb-ee-hohl] / ˈkʌb iˌhoʊl /

noun

cubbyholes plural

1. pigeonhole.

2. a small, snug place.

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cubbyhole British  

/ ˈkʌbɪˌhəʊl /

noun

1. a small enclosed space or room

2. any small compartment, such as a pigeonhole

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cubbyholes
  plural

Etymology

Origin of cubbyhole

First recorded in 1835–45; cubby + hole

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

cubbyhole cubbyholes

They were looking for the source of a leak in the roof, but tucked inside a cubbyhole were the "skeletal remains", Mr Glady said.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2024

In a cubbyhole beneath an attic sat a radio room complete with desks, where detainees tuned in nightly to the BBC.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022

More than a half-dozen snowboards hang in the entryway over a cubbyhole stuffed with boots.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022

And when you sneeze in one cubbyhole, a stranger in another calls out, “Bless you.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2022

It was my plot of earth, my cubbyhole.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

Long before first pitch, a cowboy hat is set behind the bat rack and under three rows of cubbyholes housing helmets in the Angels dugout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

Different passes allow different levels of access to halls, bars, committee rooms and cubbyholes within the Victorian-age premises.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2021

“One of the young residents there in the early 1980s said: ‘They may be hiding at the Barbizon in their little cubbyholes, but they are still here in New York.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 14, 2021

She published a monograph on Wooton’s Patent Secretary, an ornate desk designed and built in Indiana that had 100 cubbyholes and whose hinged wings could be folded and locked.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2020

I crouched behind the counter and inspected a half wall of cubbyholes.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline