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What do you call a group of...?
« on: July 24, 2014, 04:59:40 PM »
From oxforddictionaries.com...

People

a blush of boys
a drunkship of cobblers
a hastiness of cooks
a stalk of foresters
an observance of hermits
a bevy of ladies
a faith of merchants
a superfluity of nuns
a malapertness (= impertinence) of pedlars
a pity of prisoners
a glozing (= fawning) of taverners
 
Animals

a shrewdness of apes
a herd or pace of asses
a troop of baboons
a cete of badgers
a sloth of bears
a swarm or drift or hive or erst of bees
a flock or flight or pod of birds
a herd or gang or obstinacy of buffalo
a bellowing of bullfinches
a drove of bullocks
an army of caterpillars
a clowder or glaring of cats
a herd or drove of cattle
a brood or clutch or peep of chickens
a chattering or clattering of choughs
a rag or rake of colts
a covert of coots
a herd of cranes
a bask of crocodiles
a murder of crows
a litter of cubs
a herd of curlew
a cowardice of curs
a herd or mob of deer
a pack or kennel of dogs
a school of dolphins
a trip of dotterel
a flight or dole or piteousness of doves
a raft or bunch or paddling of ducks on water
a safe of ducks on land
a fling of dunlins
a herd or parade of elephants
a gang or herd of elk
a busyness of ferrets
a charm or chirm of finches
a shoal or run of fish
a swarm or cloud of flies
a skulk of foxes
a gaggle of geese on land
a skein or team or wedge of geese in flight
a herd of giraffes
a cloud of gnats
a flock or herd or trip of goats
a band of gorillas
a pack or covey of grouse
a down or mute or husk of hares
a cast of hawks
a siege of herons
a bloat of hippopotami
a drove or string or stud or team of horses
a pack or cry or kennel of hounds
a flight or swarm of insects
a fluther or smack or jellyfish
a mob or troop of kangaroos
a kindle or litter of kittens
a desert of lapwing
an exaltation or a bevy of larks
a leap or lepe of leopards
a pride or sawt of lions
a tiding of magpies
a sord or suit of mallard
a stud of mares
a richesse of martens
a labour of moles
a troop of monkeys
a barren of mules
a watch of nightingales
a yoke of oxen
a pandemonium of parrots
a covey of partridges
a muster of peacocks
a muster or parcel or rookery of penguins
a head or nye of pheasants
a kit of pigeons flying together
a litter or herd of pigs
a stand or wing or congregation of plovers
a rush or flight of pochards
a pod or school or herd or turmoil of porpoises
a covey of ptarmigan
a litter of pups
a bevy or drift of quail
a string of racehorses
an unkindness of ravens
a crash of rhinoceros
a bevy of roes
a parliament or building of rooks
a hill of ruffs
a pod or herd or rookery of seals
a flock or herd or trip or mob of sheep
a dopping of sheldrake
a wisp or walk of snipe
a host of sparrows
a murmuration of starlings
a flight of swallows
a game of swans; a wedge of swans in the air
a drift or herd or sounder of swine
a spring of teal
a knot of toads
a hover of trout
a rafter of turkeys
a bale or turn of turtles
a bunch or knob or raft of waterfowl
a school or pod or herd or gam of whales
a company or trip of wigeon
a sounder of wild boar
a destruction of wild cats
a team of wild ducks in flight
a bunch or trip or plump or knob (fewer than 30) of wildfowl
a drift of wild pigs
a pack or rout of wolves
a fall of woodcock
a descent of woodpeckers
a herd of wrens
a zeal of zebras



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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2014, 05:10:34 PM »
 :zzz:
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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2014, 05:22:13 PM »
where were you for the name stevesie's band thread? my goodness sakes

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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2014, 05:26:53 PM »
:zzz:

Fine, here's my Special Reserve Selection of the most zany/interesting/oddball

a drunkship of cobblers
a hastiness of cooks
a pity of prisoners
 

a shrewdness of apes
a herd or pace of asses
an army of caterpillars
a murder of crows
a cowardice of curs
a mob of deer
a piteousness of doves
a raft of ducks on water
a safe of ducks on land
a busyness of ferrets
a cloud of gnats
a cast of hawks
a siege of herons
a bloat of hippopotami
a fluther or smack or jellyfish
a labour of moles
a watch of nightingales
a pandemonium of parrots
a turmoil of porpoises
a covey of ptarmigan
an unkindness of ravens
a crash of rhinoceros
a game of swans
a knot of toads
a sounder of wild boar
a destruction of wild cats
a fall of woodcock
a descent of woodpeckers
a zeal of zebras



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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2014, 05:29:11 PM »
what about squawks?


p.s. a game of swans is my favorite

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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2014, 05:32:23 PM »
I'm partial to an unkindness of ravens, myself... but I figured you'd appreciate a destruction of wild cats  :lynchmob:

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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2014, 07:56:17 AM »

a raft of ducks on water
a safe of ducks on land

What if the ducks are in the air?

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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2014, 08:15:31 AM »

a raft of ducks on water
a safe of ducks on land

What if the ducks are in the air?

Ducks can fly?
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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2014, 08:19:08 AM »
what do you call a group of posts that you don't give a crap about?


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Re: What do you call a group of...?
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2014, 08:47:25 AM »
what do you call a group of posts that you don't give a crap about?

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Re: What do you call a group of...?
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Re: What do you call a group of...?
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