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A murder of crows
Posted by malcolm.bruce on 1 December 2011 - 11:46pm.
A wisdom of wombats.
A pod of whales.
Collective nouns. Doncha love 'em?
May I suggest a "mingle" of Word readers?
Oh and we need one for cats too - according to Wikipedia anyway.
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I love them. My favourites are...
A shrewdness of Apes.
A murmuration of Starlings.
A flange of Baboons.
How about a beard of Word Readers?
Erm...
no to the last one
My favourite
It's a neverthriving of jugglers.
I've heard that 'flange of baboons' was coined in this celebrated Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch, but is now accepted as a real term.
A droop of late-night posts
A Grievance of Teachers.
And, for political balance, how about a Twonk of Clarksons?
A charm of finches
is my favourite.
Isn't the collective
for cats a cluster?
Though I think a coolness of cats is better.
one clouder
Clouder is the collective noun for cats - and yet another reason to reference Spinal Tap.
Clouder is correct...
also a 'glaring'.
Though if young
it's a kindle of kittens
Clowder, clutter or cluster
...all allowed. And glaring.
And colony, dout, nuisance, pounce,destruction.
I'm going to stick with coolness.
Beat me to it
with clouder of cats, though I thought it was spelt 'clowder'
Clowder?
...isn't that the collective name for seafood?
Then there's
a murder of crows (yes, thank you, Sting)
a parliament of owls
Oh, sorry
completely missed the title of the thread!
Birds
A parliament of rooks and a trip of dotterel.
And as I posted previously on the 'interesting facts' thread...
...a skulk of Arctic foxes.
Obviously it wasn't interesting ENOUGH though - it ended the discussion.
Colin H accidentally came up with one a couple of days ago
In relation to the Fantanbulosas thread (sorry to be more specific the one about if they hadn't existed) - " A whole 60's full of Engelberts".
I can't adequately convey how much I like this sentence - I could do so by the power of mime if you could see me
Thank you, FoggyTynesideConMerchantMeister...
...and now, can you please release us from the very thought of a whole 60s full of Engleberts!
Check out Chris McCausland
The partially sighted stand up, this is superb.
If memory serves
An unkindness of ravens and I would suggest, if it doesn't already exist, an embarrassment of relatives.
How about
A skip full of accordions?
A cleft of harmonicas
An exaltation of larks
A wunch of bankers
A pandemonium of parrots
A game of swans
A rasp of guinea fowl
A muster of peacocks
A consortium of crabs
A bloat of hippopotami
A bank of komodo dragons
Now it's just getting silly...
....really, WHO thinks up these nouns? WHY is no-one stopping them?! I mean, has ANYONE ever seen more than one Komodo dragon in one place at one time, for god's sake? They're not going to flock anywhere: they eat each other!
Fellow members of the Massive, lovers of the English language - we must use our might to put a stop to the imbeciles and poltroons who are making these words up... It's drivel! Unnecessary! Absurd!
So it'd be
a protest of Colin Hs?
Maybe, then, it should be a...
... Poltroon of Collective Noun Maker Uppers?
Yes, I think you've nailed it there...
...or perhaps a Humbug of Superfluous Lexicographical Time-Wasters
A bank of komodo dragons,
yesterday.
I bet one of those could give you a nasty nip.
*gasps in astonishment, withdraws in admonishment*
...that's incredible Ducmeister - I was at a zoo somewhere (maybe Edinburgh) a few years ago and distinctly recall being told by the guide information that the two Komodo Dragons they had were kept in separate pens 90% of the time because otherwise one would end up eating the other, given their natural solitary lifestyles (similar to Polar Bears).
From the evidence of your photo, I feel I've been lied to! (Unless of course, there was carnage and only one Dragon standing 5 minutes after that pic was taken)
Some suggestions
A flamenco of cockroaches
A vigil of vultures
A throat of swallows
A throat of swallows?!
...bloody hell, Locust... :-)
You see...
...we don't really have these in the Swedish language, so I'm just making things up that would seem to fit!
If it isn't a flock it's a school in Swedish.
(I'm quietly proud of my flamenco of cockroaches...)
A gaggle of geese..
an embarrassment of riches, and
a shower of bastards.
I always thought ...
I always thought the correct terminology was a 'bunch' of bastards, but a 'shower' of cunts.
If Terry Thomas was using the term
it would be an "absolute shower" of bastards
Only because ...
... the censors wouldn't let him get away with saying, 'What an absolute shower of cunts!' But I'm enjoying the (black and white) image, and the relish with which I imagine him deploying the final plosive.
A refulgence of...
... glow worms.
An exertion of aardvarks.
A myopia of moles.
a "smug self-importance".........
.....of Apple-Mac owners !
A bilious blue blister of barnacles...
...a thunder of typhoons...
a Coffle of Ass
a Gulp of Cormarants
an Escargatoire of Snails
a Pitying of Turtledoves
a Cackle of Wives
an Ugh of Teenagers
a Clench of Buttocks