cubby
noun
cub·by ˈkə-bē 
plural cubbies
US
: a small, snug place (as for hiding or storage) : cubbyhole
Each boy on coming in gives his name, pays six cents, gets a key, and puts away his hat, books, and jacket (if he has 'em) in his own cubby for the night.
Madeleine B. Stern
Madeleine B. SternThe room was little more than a cubby choked with wires, splitters, routers, and electronic boxes. You would have said there was no room for a man. Stephen King
Stephen King
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Ashley and her classmates ran to the cubby area to hide. Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022 Kitchen islands maximize storage with additional drawers, shelves, and cubby holes built into the base. Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2022 Each family member has their own cubby for coats and totes and upper cabinets or shelves store off-season accessories. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2022 The girl asks her teacher at school to change the nameplate on her cubby. The New Yorker, 22 June 2022 The orange theme extends to the inside, with contrast stitching and embroidered headrests sprucing up the sensible, cubby-laden cabin, which doesn't quite match the level of finery in the latest Accord and Civic. Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 14 Apr. 2022 Most arresting is the setting, a frame that suggests a window, a ledge, a display box, a little cubby hole, a staging site. Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022 The next shot shows the Equinox's floating center console, complete with an open storage space on the bottom and a cubby on top that's located underneath the center stack. Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 17 May 2022 Blogger Jen Lou Meredith installed coordinating door inserts on half of the cubby holes, then added IKEA's RILL casters and topped the shelving unit with a LÄMPLIG chopping board to build the ultimate kitchen caddy. Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 9 May 2022 See More
Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2022 Kitchen islands maximize storage with additional drawers, shelves, and cubby holes built into the base. Sophie Flaxman, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Aug. 2022 Each family member has their own cubby for coats and totes and upper cabinets or shelves store off-season accessories. Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2022 The girl asks her teacher at school to change the nameplate on her cubby. The New Yorker, 22 June 2022 The orange theme extends to the inside, with contrast stitching and embroidered headrests sprucing up the sensible, cubby-laden cabin, which doesn't quite match the level of finery in the latest Accord and Civic. Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 14 Apr. 2022 Most arresting is the setting, a frame that suggests a window, a ledge, a display box, a little cubby hole, a staging site. Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 13 May 2022 The next shot shows the Equinox's floating center console, complete with an open storage space on the bottom and a cubby on top that's located underneath the center stack. Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 17 May 2022 Blogger Jen Lou Meredith installed coordinating door inserts on half of the cubby holes, then added IKEA's RILL casters and topped the shelving unit with a LÄMPLIG chopping board to build the ultimate kitchen caddy. Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 9 May 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
obsolete English cub pen, from Dutch kub fish basket; akin to Old English cofa den
First Known Use
1832, in the meaning defined above
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