"if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi." -Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence(2003)

Very Unusual Collective Nouns

A bale of turtles
A brace, paddling, or team of ducks
A brood of hens
A business or fesnyng of ferrets
A cast or kettle of hawks
A charm of finches
A cowardice of curs
A descent of woodpeckers
A dole of doves
A drift or parcel of hogs
A fall of woodcocks
A float of crocodiles
A gang of elks
A kine of cows
A mob of emus
A murder of crows
A pitying or dule of turtledoves
A pod of walrus
A quiver of cobras
A rafter of turkeys
A sedge or siege of cranes
A smack of jellyfish
A troop of monkeys

9 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

this really did help me with school thx :)

me said...

@Anonymous - hey, no probs. thanks for leaving a note!

Leonora said...

Thanks this is what I was looking for, however surely that is not all, I remember reading about "an unkindness of ravens"!
Elaine South Africa

Philda said...

What about a fraid of ghosts?!

me said...

@philda
ROFL!
well, it isn't all that uncommon. we use it for a lot of things... a fraid of spiders, a fraid of heights ...etc :)

Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot this really helped me with my homework! :)

Matty said...

thanks, helped me alot with my work!

Anonymous said...

Thanks this helped me a lot with school work :)

Unknown said...

helped me with my project.

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