cubbyhole

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /ˈkʌbiˌhoʊl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 and stale urine.
  2. A small compartment; a pigeonhole
  3. A glove compartment
动词 v.
  1. 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.

词形变化

cubbyholes plural cubbyholes present,singular,third-person cubbyholing participle,present cubbyholed participle,past cubbyholed past

词源

词源 1
From cubby + hole.
词源 2
From cubby + hole.
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