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What is your favorite collective noun??

I like hearing about new collective nouns like a "murder" of crows. Anyone know any more interesting and obscure ones?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I love a charm of hummingbirds, an exaltation of larks, and a barren of mules!

  • 5 years ago

    A sprinkling of strippers (1 used by a friend describing his first taster of a lap dancing club)!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    An unkindness of ravens.

    I also like 'a brace of pheasant', meaning two, generally shot.

  • 1 decade ago

    my favorite is "a parliament of owls"

    I've heard of "a ballet of swans" but I'm not sure it is legitimate. If it is, then that's right up there with parliament of owls for me :)

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  • 1 decade ago

    an embarrassment of riches

  • 1 decade ago

    throng

  • k8kay
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    gaggle (of geese)

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