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April 04, 2006
collective nouns
I was talking to Danielle this morning and somehow we started talking about monkeys. It made me wonder what word is used to describe a group of monkeys. I knew a few other words for groups of nouns, like "a pod of whales," or "a gaggle of geese," or "a pride of lions," but I didn't know one for monkeys. So I asked Google, and I found a great list of hundreds of them. Some of my favorites are:
- a congregation of crocodiles
- an ostentation of peacocks
- a knot of toads
- a shrewdness of apes
- a singular of boars (I don't get this one)
- a clutter of cats
- a business of ferrets
- a tower of giraffes
- a prickle of hedgehogs
- a mob of kangaroos
- an ambush of tigers
- a sneak of weasels
- a zeal of zebras
- a grist of bees
- an implausibility of gnus
- a waddle of penguins
- a bloat of hippopotami
- a crash of rhinoceri
- a tabernacle of bakers
- a draught of butlers
- an exaggeration of fishermen
- a poverty of pipers
- a superfluity of nuns
- a cartload of monkeys
- a tribe of monkeys
- a troop of monkeys
- a troupe of monkeys
Posted by neal on April 4, 2006 02:04 PM
Comments
I always thought it was "a barrel of monkeys". Sheesh!
Posted by: Steve Carlson on April 4, 2006 02:20 PM
Yo yo. if you don't come see me today, i can't save you any money. and i'll stuff a sneak o' weasels in yer shorts, too..
~jake d
Posted by: jake on July 6, 2006 04:48 AM