Definition of Cupboard. Meaning of Cupboard. Synonyms of Cupboard

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Definition of Cupboard

Cupboard
Cupboard Cup"board (k[u^]b"b[~e]rd), n. [Cup + board.] 1. A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [Obs.] --Bacon. 2. A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet. Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. ``A cupboard love is seldom true.' --Poor Robin. [Colloq.] To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] ``My stomach cries cupboard.' --W. Irving.
Cupboard
Cupboard Cup"board, v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [R.] --Shak.

Meaning of Cupboard from wikipedia

- A cupboard is a piece of furniture for enclosing dishware or grocery items that are stored in a home. The term is sometimes also used for any form of cabinet...
- Mammy's Cupboard (founded 1940) is a roadside restaurant built in the shape of a mammy archetype, located on US Highway 61 south of Natchez, Mississippi...
- The Indian in the Cupboard is a low fantasy children's novel by the British writer Lynne Reid Banks. It was published in 1980 with illustrations by Robin...
- The Indian in the Cupboard is a 1995 family fantasy film directed by Frank Oz and written by Melissa Mathison, based on the 1980 children's book of the...
- The Broom Cupboard may refer to: "The Broom Cupboard", episode of The Unit (season 2) The Broom Cupboard, former studio presentation for the BBC Children's...
- 100 Cupboards is a 2007 fantasy children's book by N. D. Wilson. The first book in the 100 Cupboards Trilogy, it is followed by Dandelion Fire and The...
- A fume hood (sometimes called a fume cupboard or fume closet) is a type of local exhaust ventilation device that is designed to prevent users from being...
- Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham. Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery...
- Cupboard love is a po****r learning theory of the 1950s and 1960s based on the research of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Mary Ainsworth...
- closet or skeleton in the cupboard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Skeleton in the Closet or Skeleton in the Cupboard may refer to: Skeleton in the...