cubbyhole

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cubbyhole

/ˈkʌbiˌhoʊl/ US

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From cubby + hole.

noun cubbyholes

A small, snug room which may be used as a place of privacy, or a safe place for children To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books mingled with old damp cement
A small compartment; a pigeonhole
A glove compartment

verb cubbyholes · cubbyholing · cubbyholed

To restrict, limit or narrowly define; to pigeonhole. Rivera: The world has changed. It is no longer cubbyholed. I do not think — Friendly: What do you mean cubbyholed? Rivera: I do not think the definition of journalist is as narrowly construed these days as perhaps it was once.

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noun a small, snug room

Português	cubículo
Italiano	cubicolo
Русский	ую́тное месте́чко ujútnoje mestéčko, ко́мнатка kómnatka, закуто́к zakutók

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@misc{cubbyhole_2026,
  title = {cubbyhole},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cubbyhole},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}