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What (who) is cupboard$18114$ - definition
Cupboard Love
cupboard
![[[Cups]] in a cupboard.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/-99wiki.jpg?width=200 "[[Cups]] in a cupboard.")
![Built-in cupboard: A cupboard built into the wall of St James's Church, [[Whitechapel, Lancashire]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/St James's Church, Whitechapel, Cupboard door - geograph.org.uk - 913360.jpg?width=200 "Built-in cupboard: A cupboard built into the wall of St James's Church, [[Whitechapel, Lancashire]]")
![Antique cupboard: English [[livery]] cupboard approximately 1600 to 1640](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LiveryCupboard.JPG?width=200 "Antique cupboard: English [[livery]] cupboard approximately 1600 to 1640")
CLOSED OR OPEN-SHELVED SIDE TABLE FOR DISPLAYING DISHWARE, MORE SPECIFICALLY PLATES, CUPS AND SAUCERS
Airing cupboard; Boiler cupboard; Cubbard; Stationery cabinet; Stationary cabinet; Stationary cupboard; Stationery cupboard; Storage cabinet; Cup board; Cupboards; Cup boards
¦ noun a piece of furniture or small recess with a door and usually shelves, used for storage.
Phrases
cupboard love Brit. affection that is feigned so as to obtain something.
Origin
ME (denoting a table or sideboard on which cups, plates, etc. were displayed).
airing cupboard
CLOSED OR OPEN-SHELVED SIDE TABLE FOR DISPLAYING DISHWARE, MORE SPECIFICALLY PLATES, CUPS AND SAUCERS
Airing cupboard; Boiler cupboard; Cubbard; Stationery cabinet; Stationary cabinet; Stationary cupboard; Stationery cupboard; Storage cabinet; Cup board; Cupboards; Cup boards
(airing cupboards)
In British houses, an airing cupboard is a warm cupboard where you put clothes and other things that have been washed and partly dried, to make sure they are completely dry.
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cupboard
CLOSED OR OPEN-SHELVED SIDE TABLE FOR DISPLAYING DISHWARE, MORE SPECIFICALLY PLATES, CUPS AND SAUCERS
Airing cupboard; Boiler cupboard; Cubbard; Stationery cabinet; Stationary cabinet; Stationary cupboard; Stationery cupboard; Storage cabinet; Cup board; Cupboards; Cup boards
n.
1) an airing (BE); built-in cupboard
2) (usu. fig.) a bare cupboard
Wikipedia
Cupboard love
Cupboard love is a popular learning theory of the 1950s and 1960s based on the research of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Mary Ainsworth. Rooted in psychoanalysis, the theory speculates that attachment develops in the early stages of infancy. This process involves the mother satisfying her infant's instinctual needs, exclusively. Cupboard love theorists conclude that during infancy, our primary drive is food which leads to a secondary drive for attachment.
