cuddy-hole

Noun

cubbyhole (plural cubbyholes)

1. 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...1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
2. A small compartment; a pigeonhole
3. A glove compartment

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