Cupboardy vs Cupboardlike - What's the difference?
cupboardy | cupboardlike | Synonyms |
(rare) Cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit.
* 1877 , Mary Elizabeth Braddon, In Great Waters, and Other Tales , Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 1402191197, [
* 1886 , A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney, Bonnyborough , Houghton, Mifflin, [
* 1889 , J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton, Bypaths and Cross-roads , Ward and Downey, [
* 1907 , William John Thomas, Doran (John), Henry Frederick Turle, Joseph Knight, Vernon Horace Rendall, Florence Hayllar, Notes and Queries , G. Bell, etc [
*:(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.
* 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 156368019X, [
(archaic) Associated with cupboard love.
* 1880 , Cecilia Findlay, Cross purposes , Marcus Ward & Co, [
Cupboardy is a synonym of cupboardlike.
As adjectives the difference between cupboardy and cupboardlike
is that cupboardy is (rare) cupboardlike: for example small, fusty or poorly lit while cupboardlike is resembling a cupboard.cupboardy
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Adjective
(en adjective)p. 231],
- 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.
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."
p. 265],
- Ah ! we may smile as we walk behind our hostess as she discourses eagerly over her pickles and preserves, and we scent the queer lavender "cupboardy " smell that hangs about the upstairs rooms, each bed appropriately attired in a ghost-like dust-sheet.
p. 287],
p. 156],
- I was ushered along a dark cupboardy passage that led to the dining-room.
p. 32]
- Down, Jack, you cupboardy dog!" The rough terrier thus unceremoniously addressed had been making a tour of inspection round Else ever since her arrival; but a sudden impression that there was such a thing as bread and butter to be had overmastered curiosity, and turning away...he sat up on end and wagged his paws just in front of his mistress.
