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kitchen-sinkery

noun

Etymology

From kitchen sink + -ery.

  1. derived from *sengʷ-✻
  2. derived from *sinkwaną✻
  3. derived from *sinkwan✻
  4. derived from sincan
  5. inherited from synken
  6. compounded as kitchen sink — “kitchen + sink”
  7. suffixed as kitchen-sinkery — “kitchen sink + ery”

Definitions

  1. Household cleaning tasks.

    • If there's one thing that binds me rigid it's kitchen-sinkery. We should have brought a washing machine, then no doubt old Chin - Chin would have turned out clean shirts for us every day.
    • In doing so, we've acquired a dishwasher. No matter that it's elderly, if not obsolete — it's our chance to put kitchen-sinkery behind us and begin a leisured after-dinner life.

  2. The style of the kitchen sink drama, depicting social realities in an unstylized and…

    The style of the kitchen sink drama, depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.

    • All of that could read like the obligatory kitchen-sinkery of so many postmodern novels, too suspicious of conventional narrative to settle down.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for kitchen-sinkery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA