Framistat

What is Framistat?


1.

A nonsense word invented by a radio comedian of the 1940s, meaning a (usually technical) part of some machine or device that he didn't really understand or know the proper name for.

"You have to adjust the framistat before that will work."

See technical, machine, device, operation


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