car-TON-ic (adj): A condition where an appearance or an occurrence possesses or takes-on qualities most often associated with cartoons. For instance, when a mouse literally smashes a cat's face flat with an ironing board; alternatively, an individual with an hilariously bulbous nose and a bubbly voice.
1. I stubbed my toe which then swelled up to cartonic proportions.
2. I saw Penelope Cruz in person and my tongue actually dropped to the floor and rolled out like a little red carpet with its own tiny paparazzi. It was sorta cartonic.
3. My cartonic grandfather is rather diminutive, blue, has a beard, wears a red cap with matching pants and no shirt.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2million.