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kitchen-sinkery en · NOUN

Etymology

From kitchen sink + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) 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. 1964, Capt. W.E. Johns, Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns, Alien Ebooks, →ISBN, page 50:
    • 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. 2020, Renée Hollis, Struggle and Success: True Stories That Reveal the Depths of the Human Experience, Exisle Publishing, →ISBN, page 212:
  2. (uncountable) The style of the kitchen sink realism, 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. 2016, Kathryn Schulz, “Race and racing in C. E. Morgan's ‘The Sport of Kings’”, in The New Yorker, page 66: