Known as an Torgie-ism, this is an essential word in any modern conversation. It explains a range of emotions: shock, love, embarrassment, delight. Cries of 'oh my glob' can be heard in all the halllways of the finest colleages in Oxford. So, of course, it's just a matter of time before it will travel round the world and come back to Oxford when it will have a rightful place in the official Oxford Dictionary.
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.