kitchen-sinky

Adjective

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

1. (informal) 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.1999 November 5, Peter Clinch, “Re: Looking For a Backpack”, in rec.backcountry (Usenet)
   • 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.2007, John Quijada, "Re: Aesthetics", Conlang Mailing list archives, 23 October 2007
2. 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.2001 February 4, Susannah Clapp, “Mother knows best”, in The Guardian
   • "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."2007 April 29, Stephanie Bunbury, “Tide and emotions”, in The Age