Once heard at a Mid-Summer Night's Dream, it has become my favorite word. In modern times it can be interpreted as a herpes sore. Not a very pleasant sight.
That cankerblossom on her liptold me that she got around.
Also:
Shne was b eing such a Cankerblossom last week when she slept with that one kid at a party.
a "blossom" of pus that comes out when a canker bursts. Usuallyused only in Shakespearean plays.
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 3.2.282-284. Herm. “O me! You juggler! You cankerblossom!/ You thief of love! What, have you come by night/ And stol’n my love’s heart from him?”
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 $2 million.