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kitchen-sinky

adj

Etymology

From kitchen sink + -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase kitchen sink realism.

  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-sinky — “kitchen sink + y”

Definitions

  1. Encompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to…

    Encompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to diminished efficiency or reduced practical utility.

    • Don't buy a [back]pack with loads of extra kitchen sinky bits unless you'll be using them frequently.
    • I'm sure there are subjects I could have covered, but I didn't want it to get too kitchen-sinky.

  2. Of or pertaining to kitchen sink realism

    Of or pertaining to kitchen sink realism; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.

    • Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors.
    • "He takes this seedy little story of seedy little people in seedy little rooms, and he makes it big and operatic and grandiose. I love that. It could have all been documentary-like or a bit kitchen sinky, and all rough and tough. […]

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