kitchen-sinky

== English == === Alternative forms === kitchen sinky === Etymology === From kitchen sink +‎ -y. Sense 1 alludes to the phrase everything but the kitchen sink, sense 2 to the phrase kitchen sink realism. === Pronunciation === === Adjective === kitchen-sinky (comparative more kitchen-sinky, superlative most kitchen-sinky) (informal) Encompassing an excessively broad range of features or elements, often leading to diminished efficiency or reduced practical utility. 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. (drama) Of or pertaining to kitchen sink realism; depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner. ==== See also ====