Used to describe people, objects or small places that are delapidated, moldy, gnarled and generally unpleasant to look at. In use since the early 2000s and infuenced by the work of JK Rowling. Surrey slang, originating from the Mole Valley area?
Nathalie, that draw full of detritus left in your bedroom is distinctly craggernackle - You need to sort it out!
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.