One who looks likes like a deer caught in head lights who stuffs her bags with hay...then continues to show off the bags of hay and tease as others walk by. One who does not have a brain.
A female ragamuffin whose hair resembles straw in both texture and appearance. The prostitute scarecrow will stand on the side of old country roads and try to entice young farmers with her lumpy hay-filled dungarees and poorly applied makeup.
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.