English

Alternative forms

• kitchen sinky

Adjective

kitchen-sinky ‎(comparative more kitchen-sinky, superlative most kitchen-sinky)

1. (informal) Inclusive of too wide a variety of features or items, typically with a resulting trade-off in efficiency or usefulness.
   • 1999 November 5, Peter Clinch, “Re: Looking For a Backpack”, in rec.backcountry, Usenet:

     Don't buy a [back]pack with loads of extra kitchen sinky bits unless you'll be using them frequently.

   • 2007, John Quijada, "Re: Aesthetics", Conlang Mailing list archives, 23 October 2007:

     It is not kitchen-sinky if we understand a kitchen-sink not simply [as] a language very loaded with various grammatical and phonological features but only a language where they are only for their own sake and don't make a functional system together.

   • 2011, Nancy Deville, Healthy, Sexy, Happy: A Thrilling Journey to the Ultimate You, Greenleaf Book Group (2011), ISBN 9781608322701, unnumbered page:

     I'm sure there are subjects I could have covered, but I didn't want it to get too kitchen-sinky.

   • 2011, Erin McKean, "DIY dictionary", Boston Globe, 20 March 2011:

     "How to Read a Word" includes quite a bit of related material, including a slightly kitchen-sinky collection of "word stories," investigating words such as wordhoard, skulduggery, and yes, lexicographer; […]

2. Of or pertaining to the kitchen sink drama; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
   • 2001, Susannah Clapp, "Mother knows best", The Guardian, 4 February 2001:

     Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors.

   • 2007, Stephanie Bunbury, "Tide and emotions", The Age, 29 April 2007:

     "Here was a kid who was imagining things and inventing things and none of this was odd to her, mum and dad being junkies. I didn't want to comment; I just present the story. And I didn't want to be too kitchen-sinky, because it's a heightened reality."

   • 2011, Gina Picallo, "Helen Mirren interview", The Telegraph, 7 February 2011:

     "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. […]