Crossword clues for cubby
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cubby \Cub"by\ (k?b"b?), Cubbyhole \Cub"by*hole`\ (-h?l`), n. A snug or confined or secluded place; a small room or a snug space within a room.
Syn: snuggery, snug.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1868, short for cubbyhole.
Wiktionary
n. A small, confined space.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A cubby or cubby-hole is a small, secure place, especially for children.
Cubby may also refer to:
Usage examples of "cubby".
Melissa Swan, hidden in a cubby in his bedroom the whole time I was there.
She sits rigid on her bunk under dim fluorescent light, every wall of the cubby within easy reach.
She squeezes past Clarke into the cubby and checks the topographic display.
Beebe with the rest of them, hooked into the library or hiding in his cubby, safe and dry.
Quiet as stone, Lenie Clarke sits in the command cubby staring at a blank screen, waiting for the alarm.
She can see into the communications cubby from her position in the lounge.
When the Shark moved toward Cubby with its jagged teeth exposed, he pounced on it.
All the while, Ozma had been using her wand to turn the Sharks into tiny snails, which Cubby picked up and put into a nearby pond.
Luck was with her, and she was able to pick up what she needed without having to speak with anyone except Peg Drucker at the register, who got so rattled she double-scanned the grape jelly, and Cubby Bowmar, who caught up with her while Peg was bagging and revealed a gaping hole where his right canine tooth had once been.
She spun on Cubby, ready to light into him, when, out of nowhere, Colin appeared like a dark avenger and launched himself at them.
He stood with his fists on his hips, legs braced, waiting for Cubby or Junior, for Jack or Carl Ray.
She pushed past Ryan, headed for the Lakehouse, and spent the evening dancing with Cubby Bowmar.
The cubby is silent except for the omnipresent ship sounds -- expanding and contracting metal from the hull, the whisper of ventilators, the hum of equipment, the occasional burp of a thruster.
Behind his bed were two opaque cubes -- the wardrobe cubby and the shower-lavatory cube -- but when the hull was allowed to go transparent, these cubes were just dark blocks against the starfield all around and overhead.
Six hours later, before the internal fields switch on and the bodies begin to be repaired in their complex sarcophagi, even while the cabin is still in virtual vacuum, Nemes stands, shoulders two hundred gravities with no expression, and walks to the conference cubby and the plotting table.