sinkward

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English sink

Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.

Proto-Germanic *wardaz

Old English -weard

English -ward

English sinkward

From sink + -ward.

Adverb

sinkward (not comparable)

1. Towards a sink.
   • 1986, Betty Rollin, Last Wish:

     He takes the fruit and a knife sinkward, and as the women fashion plans he slices melon and devours the red fibers, spitting seeds into the hollow tub.

   • 2009 February 22, S.S. Fair, “Curl, Interrupted”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Remove with warm water and don’t freak when the little black “tubes” fall sinkward.