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kitchen sinky

kitchen sinky is the alternative form of kitchen-sinky.

Meaning of 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)
  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

Questions about kitchen sinky

What is kitchen sinky the alternative form of?
Kitchen sinky is the alternative form of kitchen-sinky.

Words near kitchen sinky in the dictionary

  1. kitchen sink regression
  2. kitchen sink regressions
  3. kitchen sinked
  4. kitchen sinking
  5. kitchen sinks
  6. kitchen sinky
  7. kitchen sponge
  8. kitchen stuff
  9. kitchen supper
  10. kitchen suppers
  11. kitchen table

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