GROUP NOUNS
I need some help from all of you. I hoped to find a thread here on group nouns, but perhaps I was looking in the wrong place. Anyway, I am doing a piece of fiber art, a series actually, that involves group nouns. I have nearly finished a murder of crows and will have a picture on my blog soon. I need some more. I don't want "real" ones; I want clever ones. For example: a sermon of preachers. But I would like them to be as visual as possible.
July 20, 2006, 20:16
SeanahanI found this old thread with quite a few clever ones, started by you, funny enough, about two years ago.
https://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/41060069.../184108636#184108636FWIW, my favorite is "'Ell, no, Guv'nors, it was a feathering of 'ores!"
July 21, 2006, 01:59
CaterwaullerHere is a more recent thread on the topic:
https://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/410600694/m/4051033092:-)
I still really like:
a tottering of giraffes
a crash of rhinocerous
a twittering of girls
and KHC's a shush of librarians
July 22, 2006, 11:24
KallehCW, I liked your "A case of lawyers."
We could probably come up with some more for her.
A scalpel of surgeons?
Oh, these are wonderful. I'm doing this series of little quilts, wall hangings really, about 8x10. I can just see a hoe of farmers. The murder of crows was/is actually rather gorey. Poor crows... More please. Thank you!
July 22, 2006, 21:36
CaterwaullerI found a huge list of them
here.my faves:
a charlotte of webpages
a hug of teddy bearws
a pomposity of professors