cubbyhole

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Previosly voted Wales' favourite word, Cwtch means hug or cuddle - however it's second meaning is a cubbyhole or cupboard; a small space in which to store things safely.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

“I don’t begrudge anyone retiring,” longtime regular Daniel Eiben said Sept. 15, poking his head into Yoshimura’s cluttered cubbyhole of an office on the store’s penultimate day in business.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 5, 2023

In a cubbyhole beneath an attic sat a radio room complete with desks, where detainees tuned in nightly to the BBC.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

Or merely find your little cubbyhole in the cosmos.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2019

He peered up at me for the first time since we’d walked into his cubbyhole office.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes