cloffice

English

Etymology

Blend of closet +‎ office

Noun

cloffice (plural cloffices)

1. (colloquial) A small workspace or home office that is set up within a closet. [from 2003]
   • 2003 February 23, PHISH-WOMEN, “PHISH-WOMEN Digest - 13 Feb 2003 to 14 Feb 2003 - Special issue(#2003-139)”, in rec.music.phish‎^[1] (Usenet):

     I have taped them on a big poster board and they are on a wall in my closet. Do any of you remember my CLOFFICE? The big walk in closet that I have my computer in that my son labelled a cloffice because it was a closet and an office. The walls in there are all Phish and other cool stuff.

   • 2005 September 15, Erika Anderson, “One Man’s Passion For Rosary Launches New Ministry”, in Georgia Bulletin‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-05-02:

     The podcasts originate from the couple’s “cloffice,” a master bedroom closet turned office.

   • 2008, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Sixty Candles: Reflections on the Writing Life, iUniverse, page 27:

     My girlfriend used to take calls in her closet so frequently that she called it her "cloffice."

   • 2009, Robert Rave, Spin, St. Martin's Press, page 214:

     “Thanks, Louise,” I said as I brushed her off and headed into my cloffice. “I gotta get back to work.”

   • 2010, Angela Olson, Behind the Weight, Xlibris, page 67:

     Sometimes I wait and wait before I feel like I am going to explode and remind him again to shut the cabinet doors all the way, or put the nail clippers back where they came from or bring the huge Tupperware containers that are piled high in our cloffice to the attic. Cloffice is my term for our closet slash office since our one floor single rancher has no closet space whatsoever.

   • 2017, C.N.C. Smith, B.S.O.M. Laura Harris, The Healthy Living Handbook: Simple, Everyday Habits for Your Body, Mind and Spirit, Baker Publishing Group, page 73:

     Our closet is lined with shelves and has always been full of all manner of miscellany, from sheets to blankets to shoes to old treasures. But we went through a period when we needed an office for my husband but did not have an extra bedroom. So I cleared space in the closet, put in a small desk and a phone line and voila! The “cloffice” was born. This only lasted a few years until a child moved out and a bedroom could be converted, but it taught me something very important: You can make room if you have to.

   • 2021 May 27, Jura Koncius, “Tiny cloffices — workspaces in closets — are big, thanks to the pandemic”, in The Washington Post‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-05-27:

     When the pandemic began, Christine Warnke already had a cloffice in the entry hall of her two-bedroom D.C. condo. Warnke, who works in global business development, had turned part of a closet for out-of-season clothes into a compact workspace using the Container Store’s Elfa desk and shelf system.