Help: Research has failed me. Can anybody please tell me the collective noun for a group of furbies? Google was flumoxed.
I have a dozen possibilities from my own warped imagination but if there is a standard already reconised, I'd rather use that. Otherwise it's going to have to be an annoyance of Furbies.
Stan | May 9, 2012 - 10:28
Not sure, Sooz. They look a bit like owls, but a 'parliament' hardly seems appropriate.
Hamsters are closer, with 'horde'.
How about 'a fumble of Furbies'? :)
ItsSteveDave | May 9, 2012 - 10:33
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/collnoun.htm
There you go Sooz, there's a few to choose from there. I like 'a congress of baboons', haha!
ItsSteveDave | May 9, 2012 - 10:40
'A farrow of Furbies'?
Stan | May 9, 2012 - 11:23
A goggle of Furbies?
A derby or Furbies? (well... it's an eye-rhyme!)
blighters rock | May 9, 2012 - 12:06
A festoon of Furbies might fit the frame.
insertponceyfre... | May 9, 2012 - 14:30
what is a furbie?
salmanrushdiesp... | May 9, 2012 - 15:35
Just to point out, "a derby of furbies" is a half-rhyme, not an eye-rhyme...
Sooz006 | May 9, 2012 - 15:37
Thank you everybody, I just went with an annoyance of Furbies to describe my babble of Japanese businessmen.
Stan | May 9, 2012 - 17:16
Correct, Salman... my mistake.
To Americans, though, it's an exact rhyme!
The Other Terre... | May 9, 2012 - 19:45
Why not a friendship of furbies?
Bernard Shaw | May 10, 2012 - 17:32
A sloop of furbies comes to mind. Bern
Parson Thru | May 10, 2012 - 18:40
Furbies. I like that word. Are they real? Are we?
FTSE100 | May 11, 2012 - 10:44
They'll be furbious if you get it wrong.
Parson Thru | May 11, 2012 - 12:41
Creative!