Boo's, Bloats and Blessings

There's no actual story in this blog. I just think that some of the following collective nouns are funny. They bring up funny images in my mind while trying to visualize what they describe. I imagine things like what a "knot of octopuses" or a "prickle of porcupines" may look like if you saw a group of them.

Collective nouns, or terms of venery, or nouns of assemblage, are subject-specific words used to define a grouping of people, animals, objects or concepts.

Some of my favorites:

1. A pace of asses
2. A murder of crows
3. An ostentation of peacocks
4. A knot of octopuses
5. An aarmory of aardvarks
6. A blessing of unicorns
7. A bloat of hippopotami
8. A boo of surprises
9. A buffoonery of orangutans
10. A cackle of hyenas
11. A business of ferrets
12. A conspiracy of ravens
13. A crash of rhinoceroses
14. A drift of hogs
15. A durante of toucans
16. An erst of bees
17. A mask of raccoons
18. A mob of kangaroo
19. A plague of locusts
20. A prickle of porcupines
21. A rumpus of baboons
22. A smack of jellyfish
23. A studk of jellyfish
24. totter of giraffes
25. A wake of vultures
26. A watch of nightingales

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