How to pronounce“cubbyhole”in English
And I go to the door, and there was the teacher with a warm welcome, and she took me into the classroom,
showed me my little cubbyhole -- we all remember those little cubbyholes, don't we -- and we put our stuff in there.
And then she said, "Go over to the circle and play with the kids until class starts." So I went over there and plopped down like I owned the place,
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Definitions of “cubbyhole”
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 and stale urine.”
A small compartment; a pigeonhole
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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