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Cubbyhole vs Hutch - What's the difference?

cubbyhole | hutch | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between cubbyhole and hutch

is that cubbyhole is a small, cramped room while hutch is a cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.

As a verb hutch is

to hoard or lay up, in a chest.

cubbyhole

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, cramped room.
  • A small compartment; a pigeonhole.

    • hutch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A cage in which a rabbit or rabbits are kept.
  • * 1960 , , chapter 16,
    • To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor,... the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled
  • A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.
  • A measure of two Winchester bushels.
  • (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
  • (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
  • A jig for washing ore.

    • Verb

  • To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
  • * Milton
    • She hutched the ore.
  • (mining) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.