I like collective nouns. From the college years, I noted the interesting ones in a book for casual reference. Of-late I forgot about these inscriptions and today a blog fashed upon with a good listing of collective nouns. So, here I’m listing few which rhymed well to me.
There are few sites which has segmented collective by category, and one site with reference.
SO, what do you call a collection of collective nouns
>>a treachery of spies
>>a hassle of errands
>>a magnum of hit-men
>>a quarrel of lawyers
>>an encroachment of fence-builders.
>>a fascination of on-lookers/listeners.
>>an embellishment of fishermen.
>>a blessing of unicorns
>>a book of Mormons
>>a buffoonery of orangutans
>>a charlotte of webpages
>>a mass of priests
>>a parliament of owls
>>a siege of herons
Collective noun on digital- users
>>a spider of webmasters
>>a clique of computer mice
>>a 404 of lost web pages
>>A surfeit of spammers
>>A pinch of shoplifters
>>a clutch of mechanics
>>a mixture of pharmacists
>>a vagary of impediments
>>an obfuscation of philosophers/politicians/economists
tower of giraffes
an exaltation of larks
an asylum of managers
a balance of accountants
a brace of dentists
a babble of linguists
a virtue of patients
a fraid of ghosts
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a cast of actors,
a congregation of worshipers
a wealth of lawyers
a billing of consultants
a crew of barbers
a snap of photographers
a drove of cabbies.
an absence of waiters
a deficit of bookkeepers
a flood of plumbers
a lie of politicians
a ream of bureaucrats.
an archive of programmers
a set of mathematicians
a geek of engineers
an incision of surgeons
an audit of accountants
a body of pathologists
a brace of orthodontists
a dose of doctors
a formation of geologists
a mixture of pharmacists
a vision of optometrists.
A bridge of admirals
a deck of sailors
a company of soldiers might be firing a broadside of shells
sailing a fleet of ships
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driving a cavalcade of tanks
a desperation of voters
compromise of senators
a buttload of proctologists investigating a clench of sphincters
a colony of microbiologists ogling a culture of bacteria
Pls feel free to add more collectives to the collection.
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