The same tragedy that has befallen the noble fanny pack.
Are you referring to my tactical belt pouch?
Aka "nook"
Or cranny
When I remodeled my ex-GFs kitchen, we refaced her cabinets by sealing and painting her oak facia white. Her cabinets had ~8" oak filler pieces to take up the extra space between the last cabinet and the wall. I decided she needed cubbies, she agreed. I made a vertical set of cubbies out of scrap in under an hour and it looked factory! Painting them took longer than building them. She loved the upgrade, they added character.
cubby (n.) 1868, short for cubbyhole.
cubbyhole (n.) "small, enclosed space," 1825, the first element possibly from a diminutive of cub "stall, pen, cattle shed, coop, hutch" (1540s), a dialect word with apparent cognates in Low German (such as East Frisian kubbing, Dutch kub). Or perhaps it is related to cuddy "small room, cupboard" (1793), originally "small cabin in a boat" (1650s), from Dutch kajuit, from French cahute. OED calls it "a nursery or children's name."
source (etymonline.com)
Robert De Niro
"Cubby" is short for "cubbyhole", which is a medieval word. I believe that the shortened form became popular in the late 20th century in elementary schools. To make "Cubby" plural swap the "y" for "ies". Dropping the "s" to make words singular again is a very new trend, probably connected to 21st century baby naming trends e.g. Maddie as a name.
cool thanks, that is interesting.
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