kitchen-sinkery

English

Etymology

kitchen sink +‎ -ery

Noun

kitchen-sinkery (uncountable)

1. Household cleaning tasks.
   • 1964, Capt. W.E. Johns, Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns, Alien Ebooks, →ISBN, page 50:

     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.

   • 2020, Renée Hollis, Struggle and Success: True Stories That Reveal the Depths of the Human Experience, Exisle Publishing, →ISBN, page 212:

     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.

2. The style of the kitchen sink drama, depicting social realities in an unstylized and direct manner.
   • 2016, Kathryn Schulz, “Race and racing in C. E. Morgan's ‘The Sport of Kings’”, in The New Yorker, page 66:

     All of that could read like the obligatory kitchen-sinkery of so many postmodern novels, too suspicious of conventional narrative to settle down.