cubby
/ˈkʌbi
/noun (plural cubbies) chiefly North American
A cubbyhole.We trust each other enough that students eating at Café Mac leave their bags in the cubbies outside the dining hall....
- When students leave their garbage in classrooms, cubbies and common areas, other students are forced to clean it up if they want to utilise that area.
- She had packaged the cookies in tin foil, then put the tinfoil in a plastic grocery bag so that Bridget could hang it in her cubby at school.
Origin
Mid 17th century (originally Scots, denoting a straw basket): related to dialect cub 'stall, pen, hutch', of Low German origin.