Collective Nouns
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to add three things to this list I found on the Internet in the comments below.
A _______of Editors
A________of Writers
A________of Agents.
Put your answers in the comments and have fun!
Here are 50 examples:
1. Business of Ferrets
2. Labor of Moles
3. Mustering of Storks
4. Shrewdness of Apes
5. Gam of Whales
6. Smack of Jellyfish
7. Host of Angels
8. Fusillade of Bullets
9. Baptism of Fire
10. Quiver of Arrows
11. Tissue of lies
12. Murder of Crows
13. Unkindness of Ravens
14. Dule of Doves
15. Clowder, Cluster, or Clutter of Cats
16. Kindle of Kittens
17. Mute of Hounds
18. Pass of Asses
19. Ostentation of Peacocks
20. Team of Ducks (when flying)
21. Paddling of Ducks (when on water)
22. Trip of Goats
23. Sloth, or Sleuth, of Bears
24. Charm of Finches
25. Hill of Beans
26. String of Ponies
27. Hand of Bananas
28. College of Cardinals
29. Shock of Corn
30. Band of Men
31. Knot of Toads
32. Wedge of Swans (when flying)
33. Parliament of Owls
34. Superfluity of Nuns
35. Abominable Sight of Monks
36. Untruth of Summoners
37. Doctrine of Doctors
38. Damning of Jurors
39. Sentence of Judges
40. Rascal of Boys
41. Gaggle of Women
42. Gaggle of Gossips
43. Impatience of Wives
44. Tabernacle of Bakers
45. Poverty of Pipers
46. Fighting of Beggars
47. Neverthriving of Jugglers
48. Herd of Harlots
49. Worship of Writers
50. Hastiness of Cooks
A nitpick of editors.
An anxiety of writers.
A mystery of agents.
I’ll play!
An Evict of Editors
A Reader of Writers
A Pact of Agents
Love, love, love “A Reader of Writers”!
A redline of editors
A scribble of writers
An angle of agents
A crunch of editors
A morass of writers
A fleet of agents
Scribble of writers – excellent
An Eraser of Editors
A Painter of Writers
A Hunter of Agents
A Worry of Editors
An Inspiration of Writers
A Holiness of Agents
A Luster of Editors
A Window of Writers
A Shuttle of Agents
A halt of editors
A bench of writers
A gatekeep of agents
A Confusion of Editors
A Winter of Writers
A Confusion of Agents
Persnickity of editors, scribble of writers, pitcher of agents.
A Revision of Editors.
A Pen of Writers.
A Representation of Agents.
My favorite
It’s even more fun when you require an Alliteration of Answers:
An Elucidation of Editors
A Whizbangery of Writers
An Anointing of Agents
A Detail of Editors
A Volume of Writers
A Trust of Agents
Tipping my cap to the challenger.
Applauding the contributors.
I cannot do better. (Not even with ChatGPT.)
A Spine of Editors
A Script of Writers
A Clause of Agents
A Fortress of Editors.
A Beggers Lot of Writers
A Drawbridge of Agents
Off the cuff. I see better ones submitted.