Kitchen-sinkery
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Household cleaning tasks. uncountable
"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."
- 2 The style of the kitchen sink drama, depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner. uncountable
"All of that could read like the obligatory kitchen-sinkery of so many postmodern novels, too suspicious of conventional narrative to settle down."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From kitchen sink + -ery.
More for "kitchen-sinkery"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.