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Cupboard vs Cupboardwise - What's the difference?

cupboard | cupboardwise |

As a noun cupboard

is an enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc.

As a verb cupboard

is to collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

As an adverb cupboardwise is

(rare) in the manner of a cupboard.

cupboard

English

(wikipedia cupboard)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc.
    • Put the cups in the cupboard .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1932, author=
    • , title=Friday's Business , chapter=20 citation , passage=Eurydice pointed to the cupboard , and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor.}}
  • *
  • (obsolete) A table or sideboard on which to display or store cups, dishes etc.

    • Synonyms

    * closet (US) * press * wardrobe (British)

    Derived terms

    * airing cupboard * cupboardlike * cupboard love * cupboardy * fume cupboard * hot cupboard * skeleton in the cupboard

    See also

    * armoire * sideboard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.
  • * 1608 , , I. i. 98:
    • Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing / Like labour with the rest,
    1000 English basic words

    cupboardwise

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (rare) In the manner of a cupboard.
  • * 1957 , Catherine Weldon, Young folks in homes: leisure-time activities in child-caring institution
    • Boxes, assembled within a larger box cupboardwise and placed on a bedside table, can be used for storage in the same way that pockets are used.
  • * 1959 , Therle Hughes, Small decorative antiques
    • By the early nineteenth century there were even kitchen dolls whose skirts opened cupboardwise to reveal suitably papered rooms with shelves...
  • * 2008 , Fred Roe, Old Oak Furniture
    • They were small upright receptacles intended for hanging against the wall, having a single door opening cupboardwise ...