DHa very small space or room, used especially for storing things 〔尤用于储物的〕窄小的地方;小房间
Examples from the Corpus
cubbyhole• The letters had been stuffed in a cubbyhole in the desk.• The newsroom was minuscule, not much more than a cubbyhole, next door to Monty's cluttered little office.• He thought about the way that Overdene looked at him from his glasscubbyhole whenever Henry was twenty minutes late from lunch.• I get the attention of a miserable looking father in a soiledhabit sitting alone in his cubbyhole.• Even Bert was not in his cubbyhole, but Flossie was and gave a languidthump of her tail.• There was a nurse's cubbyhole with a little desk behind a glass door.• The air conditioning occupies the glovecompartment, but there are plenty of other storagecubbyholes.• He was frenetically rummaging through the cubbyholes where the barristers' briefs were kept.
Origincubbyhole
(1800-1900) cubby “cubby hole”(1800-1900) From cub“enclosure for cattle”((16-19 centuries)), from Dutchkub“roof covered with straw”