Collective nouns

You know, like a gaggle of geese. Do all words have a corresponding collective noun? What would it be for doctors? Do they gaggle too or would it be a bloodfest of doctors?

Name your collective nouns here, with funny German ones too maybe. Are there even collective nouns in Germany?

This should have been a Friday thread I guess, but I was to busy and, well, I didn't think of it yesterday lol

A dose of doctors

I don't know any German ones, but on "Have I got News for you" someone was quoted as using "bolus" as the group noun for wankers.

I think it's thicket of idiots

a parliament of owls is a nice one

or one i heard recently: an annoyance of mobile phones

Hmm...Wiki has a lot to say about it...some I have never even heard used...

Collective Nouns

I think I really like:
A wad of cash

Has a nice ring non?

ooo, nice link from Blimey

"a flutter of cardiologists" is good, isn't it? shame it's marked as one of the spurious ones

A herd of fairies...hmmm...aren't fairies a tad too small to be in a herd?

I like 'a quiver of arrows'...mainly because I like the word 'quiver' hehe

not sure if I made this one up, heard it from someone who made it up or if it's a legitimate term but:

a braggle of chalets

I like 'an equivocation of politicians'

My favorite is definitely "a bunch of things." If that's the 'official' term, that's hilarious.

murder of crows - sounds right. I've never trusted crows, not once, nor squirrels. What are they burying all those nuts for, hmm? They know something and they aren't telling - little rats with good P.R. I say. It's a conspiracy of squirrels.

A Pride of Gays?

nope. calling shennanigans. Pride of Lions.
'Gays' would fall in the 'human' category.
A busload of people... is that right?

A troop of monkeys.

Lumme! Caught!

I suppose you won't let me have "a band of rubbers" either?

Apparently it is a "lodge" of beavers. I thought it was a brothel.

I thought it was an "embarerassment of politicians"

My favourite is a flange of baboons:-


- wikipedia

or

a smack of jellyfish :-


- wikipedia

N.B. Sorry quotes were necessary as proof that I'm not bullshitting as was suggested by some TTer's - you know who you are!!!

Oh and can anyone think of a good suggestion for a collective noun for 'idiots'? Or does one exist???

lol you said flange.

So I saw this thread without noticing who started it and thought "ooh like a gaggle of geese?". Then I saw that it was my thread. Then I saw that I mentioned a gaggle of geese in the opening sentence.

Stupid forgetful repetitive brain!

@fj

Sorry didnt read that further up... I guess you can include me in that collective!

my absolute all time favourite because it is so wonderfully onamatapaeic is a 'murmuration of starlings'

A shitload of manure

a greed of lawyers

A growl of co-workers

clutch of eggs
flight of stairs
sneer of butlers
shrewdness of apes

A conflagration of arsonists
A goring of butchers
A phantasmagoria of phantoms . .

A vacuum of politicians.

An exasperation of forum posters.

A hood of chavs (alternatively, a burberry of chavs)

a fiddle of catholic priests

oooh ... good one...

A natter of housewives
A bang of MILFs
A hussy of WAGs

A "pain in the arse" of mother in laws.

An all-time favorite: a passle of brats; famously used by Scarlett O'Hara when Rhett Butler proposed to make her his mistress.

A Cradle of Goths? Not sure.

i believe the collective noun is a 'mope'

A wiggle of worms

A pedantery of Kays

I'll take it if you lose that second "e".

Very good, very good.

Some good ones there. I also like:

A whoop of gorillas.

From yesterday's Cocktail Night: A sting of mojitos

A que of Englishmen.

isn't that a que of manuels?

No, it's a misspelling of Australians

A denial of Americans?

A whinge of pomms.

a maß of bavarians

Nice one.

a flock of New Zealanders...Er sheep.