Terms of Venery

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Tue, 2003-03-04 21:16

Terms of Venery

...terms of Venery, is the name given to collective nouns that are applied to birds and animals... yesterday whilst sat at the vets with my dog, i saw a huge poster with loads of them on.. some i knew, but others were a total surprise.. many, very sweet and charming, some funny.
Here are a few I spotted...

An exaltation of larks
A shrewdness of apes
A paddling of ducks
A pitying of turtledoves (aww..)
An ostentation of peacocks (how brilliant is that one?)
A knot of toads
An ugly of walruses
A skulk of foxes
A crash of rhinoceroses
A promise of Martins
A flamboyance of flamingos (cor)
A mob of kangaroos
A sloth of bears
A business of ferrets

and it got me thinking.... what about people?

For instance... a smirk of salesmen... a bore of teachers?

a ______ of ABC'ers?

Thu, 2003-03-06 11:17

Stephen Gardiner

a handful of wankers

Fri, 2003-03-07 17:56

Paulgreco

a handful of tits, surely (flattering yourself, Stephen?)

Tue, 2003-03-04 21:37

1legspider

a fluck of ABC'ers

Tue, 2003-03-04 21:40

Mykle

Here's a few more, Liana. Oxen was the only one I knew. A Husk of Jack Rabbits A Leap of Leopards A Team of Oxen A Dray of Squirrels A murmuration of Starlings (I'd have said a Screech) A Gam of Weasels A Descent of Woodpeckers

Tue, 2003-03-04 21:42

Mykle

An alphabet of ABCers?

Tue, 2003-03-04 21:43

Liana

Murmuration was on that poster too, i loved it.. as was a smack of jellyfish...

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:02

justyn_thyme

a crock of s**t....:))))

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:03

justyn_thyme

Sorry...I couldn't resist...

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:03

#10

Liana

Well!! I shant post again then!!! :o)

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:05

#11

Mykle

The jellyfish one made me think of a sting of conmen ;o)

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:19

#12

Liana

and some of my own... an arrogance of students... a squalor of single mums... a beard of folk singers... a obsession of trekkies... a pretention of artists... a geek of surfers... a reggae of potheads... a shoulder of friends... a useless of bosses... an arsehole of husbands... a yawn of teenagers... a rabble of toddlers... a sneer of boyfriends... oh sorry, i mean AT boyfriends... come ON you lot...

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:40

#13

justyn_thyme

a pus of teenagers a trolley of shoppers a coffin of commuters a puke of drunks a pillar of posters a slink of sluts a drubbing of hooligans

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:44

#14

Hen

a liberation of women a bastard of washing machines a vodka-party of Russians a McFlag of Americans a limpet of girlfriends an owmeneck of ninjas a pornography of Japanese schoolkids

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:46

#15

justyn_thyme

a useless of eunnuchs a whollot of whores a scrabble of spellers a cavort of nymphomaniacs a pose of pimps

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:48

#16

justyn_thyme

a pylon of gangbangers

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:51

#17

Matt

a knitwear of cardigan manufacturers a bebop of 50's record producers a Wesleyan of Methodist Ministers a blush of adolescents a hush of librarians a muse of artists' models

Fri, 2003-03-07 21:24

#18

justyn_thyme

a puddle of wankers

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:53

#19

Wolfie

A limpet of girlfriends has freudian undertones, Hen. My legit favourite is definitely a bloat of hippos. ABCtalers? A wordwise puddle of 'em, possibly. A braggart of men A squeal-tin of children A wonder of wolves A vanity of models

Tue, 2003-03-04 22:54

#20

Allen Banks

My favorite: A murder of crows.

Fri, 2003-03-07 21:58

#21

mississippi

The wankers seem very popular!

Tue, 2003-03-04 23:08

#22

Liana

a slink of sluts is fabulous justyn.. love a bastard of washing machines too... this is more like it! hurrah!! Wolfie, there was one for wolves, but i can remember it? and i think they had a parliament of ravens too...

Fri, 2003-03-07 22:54

#23

justyn_thyme

a clap of wankers. an applause of wankers. Of course they are popular; after all, they are typically in the majority, aren't they?

Tue, 2003-03-04 23:09

#24

Paulgreco

A bore of teachers? Cheeky cow. A tragedy of mature students.

Tue, 2003-03-04 23:15

#25

Liana

a fabulous of bitches... a graveyard of undertakers... a brace of dentists... a lounge of lizards... an exaggeration of fishermen...

Tue, 2003-03-04 23:16

#26

Liana

a deletion of abc members? may i remind you of WHY i am at uni...

Tue, 2003-03-04 23:23

#27

Mykle

A wealth of bankers A plague of politicians A fear of terrorists

Tue, 2003-03-04 23:43

#28

justyn_thyme

a dirge of undertakers a span of bridges a plaque of dentists a scrape of gynecologists a smear of papists a sprinkle of Baptists a corpus of mannekins a festoon of females a warble of women a trill of trumpeters a cough of cigarettes a tinkle of urinals a prance of celebrities a stew of condoms

Tue, 2003-03-04 23:47

#29

Liana

you're on a roll arent you JT? :o)))

Sat, 2003-03-08 15:33

#30

andrew o'donnell

thought a tut of old ladies great.. mmm.. muse.. do yr doing.. a tangerine of street merchants a nut of soap stars a corr! of coeurs a euro of Tonies a chin of clairvoyants a settle of Daves a ruin of batchelors a dartboard of drinkers a kettle of postmen a toilet seat cover of first home buyers a boo of strippers a prod of nature show narrators

Wed, 2003-03-05 00:45

#31

markbrown

a burnout of social workers... a how man! of geordie... a shuffle of teenagers... a black cloud of depressives... a suction of hoovers... a laying of carpets... a crash of computers... a hovering of debt collection agencies... a tut of old ladies... a me of coke heads... an exhaustion of ME sufferers... a settle of flatmates... a compulsion of writers... an idea of conceptual artists... an emptiness of removal men... a smile of friends....

Wed, 2003-03-05 01:04

#32

donignacio

a lawrence of arabia a scott of the antartic a fruit of the loom a honey bunches of oats

Wed, 2003-03-05 04:53

#33

justyn_thyme

a pocket of lent a shelf of books a gallery of paintings a wall of sound an earful of wives a pool of thought a life of troubles a march of hares; or a march of hairs; or a head of hairs a bellyful of spite a caution of patience an effluvia of farts a trainer of halitosis a bolt of nuts a slouch of teenagers a forest of nails a Balzac of courage a skivvy of lies a baddaboom of bad jokes a droop of breasts a sag of asscheeks a slither of tongues

Wed, 2003-03-05 07:24

#34

mississippi

A sample of wankers.

Wed, 2003-03-05 08:37

#35

Wolfie

It's pack or route for wolves, I think. Trust Missi to lower the tone...

Wed, 2003-03-05 08:45

#36

Stephen Gardiner

a knot of denials a diet of worms a spurt of seamen a basket of currencies a droop of coopers a file of manicurists a barrel of scrapings an ounce of cents a gramme of parsons a pound of drummers a stone of dopers a ton of barrels

Wed, 2003-03-05 10:14

#37

ashen

an ejaculation of porn stars

Wed, 2003-03-05 11:03

#38

ashen

a diorrhea of Indian restaurants

Wed, 2003-03-05 11:44

#39

Paulgreco

Sounds like the curry mile in Rushholme. A lode of mothers A lot of cars A heap of uriahs A hill of beans A collection of debts A meeting of minds A teardrop of explosions

Wed, 2003-03-05 12:16

#40

justyn_thyme

a slurry of curry

Wed, 2003-03-05 12:41

#41

gorjer frill

a parliament of rooks is my favourite real one. and as for my own... a pride of fathers a coven of computers (i don't really trust technology much) a pack of girls a wig of nits a regiment of houses

Wed, 2003-03-05 13:15

#42

Paulgreco

Round our way, it's a sardine-tin of houses

Wed, 2003-03-05 13:45

#43

Tony Cook

A tut of doctors A tick of young teachers A tic of old teachers A clang of prison warders A stuffit of prisoners A tall of Gardiners A short of Cooks A thread of ABCtalers

Wed, 2003-03-05 15:30

#44

Rudi Remarques

A load of bollocks. A collection of erections.

Wed, 2003-03-05 19:44

#45

Dave Randall

a pride of gay men a gene of ideas

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