Collective nouns
 

We recently had the thread with the visual pun where the answer was attempted murder -- which put collective nouns on my mind. Then I recently went looking for collective nouns for geeks. I found two that seemed appropriate

A convention of geeks (for the star trek types)

A hash of geeks (for the programming sort)

Make one up or suggest a funny one. Doesn't have to be geeks, that's just the one that was on my mind.

an infinity of nerds

Actually, computer types would be nerds

A buttload of poo molecules

A case of alcoholics

A pack of smokers

An orgy of sex addicts

A smatter of concerned individuals

Not necessarily. Geeks can imitate real people. Nerds have no social skills and can't help themselves.


Sent from my tardis 20 days from now.

An interment of Gravdigrs. Or, a plot of Gravdigrs.

Synchronicity!
We did collective nouns at school today. One of the tables was set the task of making up their own collective nouns.
Not my table, they had trouble identifying singular and plural nouns. Or in some cases, any nouns. Ah well.

It reminded me of when I first realised that some of the more outre collective nouns really were no different than the familiar ones.
A pride of lions. It wasn't a bisemous word, it was the same one.
It was a revelation at the time.

Anyway.
An embarrassment of Reality Stars

Perfect.

Sundae, I need a translation: "bisemous"

My on-line American dictionary did not have it, and the auto-find returned one the word "bosom"
... I already know what that word means.:)

I checked to make sure it was a real word I admit.
I only knew polysemous so I worked back.

Polysemous is one word which has multiple meaning despite being spelled and pronouced in the same way. Mole for example.
So a bisemous word is one which is written and pronounced in the same way but has two meanings.

S'matter with mine? :(

Oops. Missed them responding to beast. The smatter one made me chuckle.

An All Y'all of Fuckers

A Homonym. homonymious.... uh.. yeah.. bisemous. sounds kinda dirty though... like there might be semen getting on something there..


A Screw of Used Car Salesmen

+1 with the winnish winning, winnah.

A score of musicians

Hah! I'm gonna go with a drenching of used car salesmen.

Cuz, my last used car, I got soaked.

:thumb:

a snorkel of swimmers
a stench of jocks
an argument of recorders
a misery of dieters

a row of oars

a pride of gays ;)

A whole bag of sacks of shit

A puddle of poodles

A stink of politicians

A slimey cesspool of politicians.

A pubis of republicans

A mess of masturbators

A heave of offal

A retch of anorexics

a pocketful of general practitioners

an expectancy of Australians

Lovely!


An online family of well-wishers. :)

A fluidity of drunks

A Scythe of Celebdeathpoolers

A dingle of dwellars.