cubbyhole

A small, snug room which may be used as a place of privacy and safety by children

A small compartment; a pigeonhole

A glove compartment

To restrict, limit or narrowly define; to pigeonhole.

Rivera: The world has changed. It is no longer cubbyholed. I do not think — Friendly: What do you mean cubbyholed? Rivera: I do not think the definition of journalist is as narrowly construed these days as perhaps it was once.

A true Renaissance man, Walcott has consistently resisted being cubbyholed. He has rejected neither his Caribbean heritage nor his British education.