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a Watch of Nightingales
Always had a bit of a fascination for these things so thought a thread might throw up some interesting (or funny made up) ones. Apparently they don’t always relate to the animal kingdom although they are the most well known.
Some examples
A murder of crows
A murmuration of starlings
A gaggle of geese (on the ground)
A skein of geese (in flight)
A parliament of owls
And non animal
A prudence of vicars
A melody of harpists
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a Watch of Nightingales
Read the other day that the collective noun for hedgehogs is an array, which stuck in my mind as being unlikely to be used much given their sad decline in the UK.
A bevvy of beauties
It may be an old one, but it still makes me smile.
An exaltation of larks
An unkindness of ravens
A kindle of kittens
An obstinacy of buffalo
A wunch of bankers ;-)
A clutch of breasts ;-)
A Wunch of Bankers?
Doh too slow
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The TV program Not the 9 O'Clock News did a comedy sketch about a talking Gorilla who suggested that the collective noun for baboons was a flange. Apparently it stuck.
The collective noun for politicians is, fittingly, an odium.
You are unfortunately correct - we often used to have 2 or 3 in the garden at the same time some evenings. Saw one last night - the first this year.Originally Posted by j0hnbarker
A "creep" of tortoises, apparently.
Who makes these up?
Yeah, 'a WHOOP of gorillas, a flange of baboons!' ;) It is also a shrewdness of apes, a smack of jellyfish, a cast of crabs, a streak or ambush of Tigers and if Penguins are on land they are a waddle, if they are in the sea it is a raft!
A beauty of bevies?
I have reliably been informed by my CTO that a collection of Enterprise Architects is a Constipation
A load of b*ll*cks (sorry for swearing Eddie)
(alas Smith and Jones, 1980's sometime)
A tower of giraffes seems appropriate,as does a bloat of hippopotamuses,a prickle of porcupines and a bask Of crocodiles.
Away from the animal kingdom I also quite like:
a goring of butchers
a soufflé of clouds
a shower of meteorologists
a lechery of priests
a hack of smokers
And possibly the best of all,an unhappiness of husbands.
A Bunch of Coconuts.
An irritation of mother-in-laws?
A grunt of teenagers?
A dazzle of zebras.
What a coincidence, we were looking these up when we had a barbecue at the weekend, the nicest one was a loveliness of Ladybirds.
Cheers..
Jase
Well, I always cheer when I see one these days.
A tintinabulation of bells.
A flamboyance of flamingoes
A miserableness of Bear Pit posters.
Cheers..
Jase
A disencampment of travellers?
We have a winner.
A chime of clocks
A precision of watches
I really like that.
A tok of capercaillie (link).
As learnt from an appendix to my parents' Collins dictionary.
My mate has a boar farm and informed me that he has a Sounder of boars.
I fancy that as a pub name.
My favourite has always been a skulk of foxes!
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