cupboardy
cupboardy adjective: cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
Adjective
cupboardy (comparative more cupboardy, superlative most cupboardy)
- Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- Caroline and Amelia were rather short in their tempers that night at hair-brushing time, and Lucy was glad to have her funny little cupboardy room all to herself.1877, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, In Great Waters, and Other Tales, Adamant Media Corporation, →ISBN, page 231
- I detest a room that is for nothing but eating; and one that is only for leather and paper and printer's ink gets cupboardy and musty in a hardly less undesirable way."1886, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney, Bonnyborough, Houghton, Mifflin, p. 129
- Associated with cupboard love.
- Down, Jack, you cupboardy dog!" The rough terrier thus unceremoniously addressed had been making a tour of inspection round Else ever since her arrival; but a sudden impression that there was such a thing as bread and butter to be had overmastered curiosity, and turning away...he sat up on end and...1880, Cecilia Findlay, Cross purposes, Marcus Ward & Co, page 32
Forms of cupboardy
| comparative | more cupboardy |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cupboardy |
Origin of cupboardy
From cupboard + -y.
Questions about cupboardy
- What does cupboardy mean?
- Cupboardy means cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
- What part of speech is cupboardy?
- Cupboardy is an adjective.
Words near cupboardy in the dictionary
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