A feast of brewers
A foody collective noun for a drinks purveyor. Here are some alternatives I made up: a pickling, a froth, a...
A draught of butlers
A hint of butlers having had a propensity for tippling at the sherry or the whisky? I would prefer a...
A doctrine of doctors
So now, when you are reporting from a medical conference, you know the correct term to package all those medics...
A temperance of cooks
Having recently revelled in the bursting descriptions of a quaffing, boozing, drunken chef in Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, I...
A clowder of cats
The spell check keeps trying to change 'clowder' to 'chowder', which I don't think anyone would want made of cats.
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A chapter of canons
A neutrally ecclesiastical term, so stick with this if you need to speak about a group of canons in polite...
A piteousness of doves
A poetic collective noun, evoking the soothing cooing of the birds of peace, one of the gentlest sounds in nature...
Economists
Just as I was thinking of instituting a monthly round up of collective nouns as part of this celebration of...
Collective nouns – triologisms
Proud of having coined the term 'triologism' and drawn attention to these pack-a-punch three-legged phrases, I came up with a...
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