Verboticism: Painvention
DEFINITION: A technological innovation that doesn't work as expected because "normal people" can't figure out how to use it.
Painvention
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pain + ven + shun
Sentence: This fancy-new phone is supposed to do everything, but it's such a painvention that I can't figure out how to make it do anything.
Etymology: pain + invention
Points: 893