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Cubbyhole   /kˈəbihˌoʊl/   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.


cubbyhole  n.  A small compartment.
Synonyms: pigeonhole.





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"Cubbyhole" Quotes from Famous Books



... in and took him gently by the hair, drawin' him part way through his cubby-hole so's ...
— Mr. Scraggs • Henry Wallace Phillips
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... that his companion was fully provided for, worked at the bar locking the sea hatch. But in the end it took their combined strength to spring that barrier and win through to a small cubby which was the ...
— Star Born • Andre Norton
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... for them to reach the control room, where Louie sat in his navigator's cubby; and only ten more seconds for the ship to lift clear. And still no command came over the ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
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... with the Christmas stocking dragged up also, but its contents not yet explored. The sweeties came first, and Joey had opened them and now he screamed and pointed and screamed again, but for the moment couldn't speak. He pointed into one corner of his little cubby-hole, and then the tears came flooding his cheeks and he stopped screaming and clung to his mother and wept as ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts
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... Chickadee tail-feathers in the bottom. Next a Purple Blackbird came and used the hole, piling up a lot of roots with mud on them. Next year it seems it came again and made another nest on top of the last; then that winter the Chickadees again used it for a cubby-hole, for there were some more Chickadee feathers. Next year a Blue Jay found it out and nested there. I found some of her egg-shells among the soft stuff of the nest. Then I suppose a year after a pair of Sparrow-hawks happened on the place, found it suited them, and made their nest in ...
— Two Little Savages • Ernest Thompson Seton
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