Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Some Weird Collective Nouns That You Probably Don't Know


  1.  A congregation of alligators
  2. A cete of badgers
  3. A cloud of bats
  4. A sleuth/sloth of bears
  5. An erst/grist of bees
  6. A dissimulation(fanciful)/parcel/pod/volary of birds
  7. A bench of bishops
  8. A blush of boys
  9. A draught of butlers
  10. A rabble of butterflies
  11. A sounder(12 or more) of wild boars
  12. A caravan of camels
  13. A clowder/cluster/clutter/glaring/pounce of cats
  14. A drunkenship/drunkship of clobbers
  15. A rag/rake of colts
  16. A murder of crows
  17. A dole/dule/piteousness of doves
  18. A convocation of eagles
  19. A business of ferrets
  20. A stand of flamingos
  21. A corps of giraffes
  22. A pantheon of gods
  23. An observance of hermits
  24. A bloat of hippopotamus
  25. A string/band/stable of horses
  26. A pack/cry/hunt/meet/mute/stable of hounds
  27. A mess of iguanas
  28. A smack of jellyfish
  29. A leap of leopards
  30. A mischief of mice
  31. A scourge of mosquitoes
  32. A watch of nightingales
  33. A parliament of owls
  34. A pandemonium of parrots
  35. A gaze of raccoons
  36. An unkindness of ravens
  37. A crash of rhinoceros
  38. An escargatoire of snails
  39. A descent of woodpeckers
  40. A bale of turtles

-xoxo-carmen-

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