Trushke, is to pretend to know more than everyone about a subject written in a language you don’t understand.
Audrey pulled a Trushke and rambled incoherently for an hour when asked about Hindu temple destruction during the Mughal period of Indian history. She tired to cover up genocide, atrocities on indigenous population showing her complete ignorance of the subject.
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.