CUBBY Meaning of CUBBY in English ■ noun ( plural cubbies ) chiefly N. Amer. a ~hole.OriginC17 (orig. Scots, denoting a straw basket): related to dialect cub 'stall, pen, hutch', of Low Ger. origin. Concise Oxford English vocab. Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка. 2004