A person who really knows to to bend one's yakels. Sometimes...there's too much yakeling and not enough bending.
A politically correct term, when ballbreaker is unacceptable.
Nut Cracker?
As a customer, Mrs. Berman was a real yakelbender. She yakeled about the price and she bended about the color. But in the end, she bought. A sofa and a loveseat.
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.