Collective Nouns for Groups of...
Jeffrey Contompasis
Lions - Pride
Ottters - Raft
Now, what about others?
Tobacconists - Pack
Urologists - Pool
Anyone want to continue?
Dick Knight
The English language has some very strange collective nouns - most
people have heard of a gaggle of geese, but did you know that the
collective noun for crows is a "murder". Armed with this information, a
group of people decided to update the list of collective nouns by adding
a few for the 20th century. . .
An abacus of calculators
An algorithm of compilers
An anvil of blacksmiths
A balance of accountants
A bevy of alcoholics
A blast of aeroplanes
A bolt of horses
A box of cricketers
A bra of feminists
A break of winds
A breeze of Scotsmen
A burn of bras
A can of worms
A catch of aids
A chain of surveyors
A change of addresses
A circumstance of Rabbi’s
A clutch of balls
A cocoon of b-blackmen
A code of processors
A coffin of necrophiliacs
A compulsion of gamblers
A confusion of organisers
A conglomeration of businesses
A connection of peripherals
A corruption of programs
A couch of trick-cyclists
A coup of dictators
A coven of Mother-in-laws
A cramp of writers
A crash of bugs
A crook of shepherds
A crop of barbers
A curse of mortgages
A dago of Argentineans
A dearth of programmers
A deceit of politicians
A delusion of directors
A display of terminals
A dividend of shareholders
A donation of Jehovah’s witnesses
A doze of cricket fans
A draught of french knickers
A dribble of firemen
A drip of taps
A droop of brewers
A dry of marker pens
An erasure of disks
An error of appraisements
An excuse of trains
A failure of negotiators
A fairytale of planners
A fart of colanders
A field of fine legs
A filter of coffee cups
A flesh of strippers
A flush of johns
A foil of British sportsmen
A fondle of bras
A fountain of urinals
A frock of transvestites
A giggle of gags
A gobble of Richards
A gossip of wives
A grope of gynaecologists
A gross national product of economists
A grudge of sportsmen
A hang of judges
A harvest of farmers
A heap of brownies
A heap of diagrams
A hub of wheelwrights
An inactivity of offices
An indication of pointers
An infusion of teacups
An interest of bank managers
An interface of computers
A jam of cars
A keep of rubbish
A lack of ales
A latch of bytes
A lay of nymphomaniacs
A lean of shovels
A metre of traffic wardens
A movement of beans
A gnash of teeth
A nincompoop of customs officers
An odour of deodorants
An over of maidens
A panic of engineers
A pat of cows
A percentage of agents
A perch (rod, pole or) of anglers
A fallacy of sex aids
A poke of gigolos
A pregnancy of silences
A progress of pilgrims
A promise of suppliers
A prompt of cursors
A pull of birds
A quandary of implementations
A query of Queens
A reduction of enlargers
A reek of underwear
A ring of telephones
A riot of soccer fans
A rise of erections
A rumour of managers
A run of laxatives
A scout of guides *and* a guide of scouts
A screw of hookers
A seam of tailors
A search of bushes
A sex of plugs
A shelf of projects
A silence of signalling systems
A skid of underpants
A slip of girls
A slop of canteens
A snip of vasectomies
A sombrero of Mexicans
A squeak of blackboards
A stagger of drunks
A stand of commuters
A strain of constipation sufferers
A strike of unions
A sty of male chauvinists
A suit of cases
A summons of policemen
A surprise of clairvoyants
A suspension of stockings
A sway of bars
A swindle of embezzlers
A swing of nudists
A thicket of Irishmen
A torture of racks
A trip of junkies
A trot of (brown) trousers
A turf of bookies
A twist of arms
A vat of tax collectors
A vertigo of steeple-jacks
A waffle of salesmen
A wait of buses
A want of specifications
A wave of sailors
A web of letters
A withdrawal of contraceptives
A word of editors
A writ of solicitors
A yank of Americans
And finally ..... An anonymity of authors
Austin Cassidy
An idle of technicians!
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Not really, but I feel compelled...
Surgeons - Slice \ Often confused because they are the same people...
Golfers - Slice /
Programmers - Hack
Politicians - Lie
PC Users - Confusion
Whitehouse Aides - Indictment
Boxers - Poke
Gang Members - Lineup
Lawyers - Overcharge
Procrastinators - Straggle
Tailgaters - Pileup
Bureaucrats - Blockage
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Chas Bedford
Jeffrey Contompasis <jconto...@simsci.com> wrote:
>Wolves - Pack
>Lions - Pride
>Ottters - Raft
>
>Now, what about others?
>
>Tobacconists - Pack
>Urologists - Pool
>
>Anyone want to continue?
>
Bankers - Wunch
(as in "a wunch of bankers")
Chas Bedford
D D Ginsberg
A phallusy of sex-aids?
Sorry.
--
Is reality, in reality, real?
Dick Knight
A fallacy looks wrong, I know. But the dictionary definition of a
fallacy is "deviation from the truth". It is a double-edged joke because
it is a pun as well. After all, does aids help you with sex? It is a
fallacy that these things aid sex. It is not accidentally the wrong
fallacy. I am not sure that phallusy is a real word. You are thinking of
phallus or phallic symbol - but not phallusy.
I thought that this particular collective noun was quite funny. Now that
I have explained it properly, I can see that it is not really all that
funny after all.
Dick
NAA
>Shouldn't that read:
> A phallusy of sex-aids?
>Sorry.
>--
> Is reality, in reality, real?
Of course it isn't? Don't be stupid...
Dick Knight
There we are. Lots of nouns.
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FROM: oz@vsprsun_1 (Austin Cassidy)
An idle of technicians*
* these nouns were suggested by internetters from rec.humor and are (in no particular order):-
oz@vsprsun_1 (Austin Cassidy)
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Roy C. Zartarian
A Flourish of strumpets
This is not original. Credit belongs to Albert Merriman, my long-ago
Greek professor
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