BS: Collective Nouns

Subject: Collective Nouns
From: Den
Date: 05 Nov 99 - 08:51 PM

While playing a game of Trivial Persuit one night a good friend and I pondered on some strange collective nouns such as a murder of crows, a conspiracy of ravens and a gang of Elk. We came up with some of our own, and they are as follows:

A rash of hookers

A stagger of drunks

A clutch of wankers

So, can we come up with some more. Den

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: sophocleese
Date: 05 Nov 99 - 09:12 PM

I'm not thinking well this evening. I'll have a couple of drinks and see if that helps. In the meantime people who are interested might like to check out this place

http://biobase.dk/Embnetut/Personal/venereal.html

But don't do it if it will interfere with your coming up with your own terms.

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 04:14 AM

A litter of Mudders

A spawn of politicos

A variable of waves

A pi of engineers

A die (dice,for singular) of high-rollers

A fuss of budgets

A herd of roving cowboys

A creel of SUV's

A jeez, it's the middle of the night, what the haitch am I doing!?? Nice one, Den! Soph...I'll check it later, venereal???

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 04:54 AM

How about a bother of telemarketers?

a yee-haw of rednecks?

a fury of readheads?

a drool of banjo players?

a redundancy of quadruplets?

Here's a variation: take a collective noun and find a new appropriate use for it:

a herd of otiologists

a suite of tootsie rolls

a gaggle of censors

--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: MMario
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 09:45 AM

hmmm --- I would think it would be more along the lines of an "insanity of Mudcats" or possibly and "addiction of 'catters" *g*

MMario

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 04:03 PM

How about:

A collect of priests

A surplice of choirboys (never a problem in my choir, damn, damn, damn, mutter mutter mutter)

A giggle of schoolgirls

A shriek of teenagers

A grope of Italians (sorry, but they do!!)

A flock of wallpapers

A grunt of shop assistants

A guffaw of clowns

Well, it is still early and I'm still sober, besides there are so many fireworks going off here, it sounds like the Somme!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 05:14 PM

I still think the only collective noun that efficiently describes a group of Mudcatters is a Cluster-Folk.uh-hilk hilk!

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Tony Burns
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 05:40 PM

An arseblow of possums?

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 05:45 PM

Real term, and my personal favourite:
"an exhaltation of larks"

speculation:
"a natter of secretaries"
"a courtesy of Canadians"

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: MMario
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 06:17 PM

another realterm....a vanity of peacocks

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Freddie Fox
Date: 06 Nov 99 - 08:00 PM

How about a swarm of toddlers?

They do!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Owlkat
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 03:53 AM

a mope of teenagers

a drone of bagpipers

a wheeze of seniors

a yowl of cats

a herd of shoppers

a kvetch of mothers-in-law

a sneer of actors

a rant of ethnomusicologists

Next!

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Micca
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 08:02 AM

A pick of Banjo players
An irritation of Bodhran players
Perhaps a pouch of Oposssums
A rhythm of Catholics
A doze of pensioners
A spill of drunks
An anathema of atheists
An eccentricity of Mudcatters or should that be a diversity

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Freddie Fox
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 08:27 AM

A screech of fiddle players A reverberation of drummers A groan of bagpipers A twang of mandolin players A tootle of flautists

But what would be the proper word to describe those people who go to folk clubs, sing the same song every week, too slow, out of key, with their finger in their ears, and complain about the least deviation from the norm in everyone else's performance?

Please insert in following; A bore of....

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 06:20 PM

A prayer of nuns

A pint of alcoholics

A tease of porn stars

An unfriendliness of traffic wardens

An ugliness of bouncers

A bounce of bras

A chain of sadomasachists

A gargle of dentists

Sorry still sober, and hating every minute of it....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Caitrin
Date: 07 Nov 99 - 08:18 PM

Freddie... Some of my friends in here and I developed the word for those people. Ick: (ick)n. A person who acts as though he or she appreciates music (generally for the purposes of appearances) but in all actuality has no soul. An ick also generally knows considerably less about music than he or she pretends to.

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Grubby
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 03:06 AM

a pluck of harps

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 03:17 AM

a collective of deacons (ya may have to be protestant to get that one)

a seminary of studs

a rant of talk show hosts

an ovary of hens

--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: AndyG
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 08:07 AM

A bridge of sighs
A declaration of interests
An absence of facts
A cast of thousands
A portmanteau of words

AndyG

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 07:01 PM

A gust of farts

A fondle of buttocks

A stroke of genius'

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 07:42 PM

Squeak, you have a dirty mind. I like that in a woman.

--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Brendy
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 07:56 PM

A splurge of onomatopoeiacs?

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Brendy
Date: 08 Nov 99 - 08:15 PM

A hatful of rabbits A death squad of taxmen, A crow of parliaments, A yeeeuck of semen

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Roger the skiffler
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 11:17 AM

A sewerful of Harry Fox Associates

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Bert
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 11:37 AM

A sorrow of songwriters

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 12:15 PM

BSeed, you think the mind is dirty, you should see the feet!!

A slingback of shoe shops

A grunge of socks (for that disgusting pile of odd socks found at the bottom of any laundry hamper)

A lick of toes... (hee hee hee)

A dervish of disco daddies - we've all seen them, fathers dancing at discos, like windmills, feeling like John Travolta, looking like Mr Snuffleupagus, dressed like Oscar the Grouch....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 11:31 PM

I think its "a gush of onomatopoeia" and "a splurge of credit cards."

--seed

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Brendy
Date: 09 Nov 99 - 11:43 PM

and there was me thinking that I had just invented a new class of ...iacs. It must be the old Irish humour!

Bren.

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: AndyG
Date: 10 Nov 99 - 06:20 AM

A cabal of acronyms
An amount of alliteration
A game of draughts
A verbing of nouns
A crack of knuckles

AndyG

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From:
Date: 10 Nov 99 - 07:47 AM

a sleaze of used car salesmen

Subject: RE: BS: Collective Nouns
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 10 Nov 99 - 12:01 PM

a bucket of flowers a spot of dalmations a gobful of biscuits a handful of fingers