Cupboardy

Quick meaning: Cupboardy is an adjective meaning (rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.

Meaning

(rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.

More Meanings

1. (archaic) Associated with cupboard love.

Example Sentences

Caroline and Amelia were rather short in their tempers that night at hair-brushing time, and Lucy was glad to have her funny little cupboardy room all to herself.

1886, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney, Bonnyborough, Houghton, Mifflin, p. 129, I detest a room that is for nothing but eating; and one that is only for leather and paper and printer's ink gets cupboardy and musty in a hardly less undesirable way."

1969, David Wright, Deafness: A personal Account, Faber & Faber, read in Jill Jepson, No Walls of Stone: An Anthology of Literature by Deaf and Hard of Hearing Writers, Gallaudet University Press (2002) →ISBN, p. 156, I was ushered along a dark cupboardy passage that led to the dining-room.

1907, William John Thomas, Doran (John), Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar, Notes and Queries, G. Bell, etc p. 287, (editors note after a letter by Thomas Ratcliffe re cubbardy) "Cupboardy" is recorded in the 'NED' as a nonce-word, with a quotation from Miss Braddon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cupboard-like, cupboardlike, cabinetlike, poky, pantrylike, closetlike.

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