A dignity of dragons, a lunacy of werewolves, a craving of golems, a tizzy of fairies, a vexation of zombies…

Posted on November 2, 2009 | 3 Comments

Thanks to this i09 post, I discovered David Malki’s fantastic index of “Supernatural Collective Nouns”:

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(Click on the image to make it larger.)

This comic (#566) is available for purchase on Malki’s Wondermark website as a print or a poster.

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3 responses to “A dignity of dragons, a lunacy of werewolves, a craving of golems, a tizzy of fairies, a vexation of zombies…”

  1. Drew Neil | November 5, 2009 at 1:02 pm | Reply

    Here is another great list of novel collective nouns. That site trawls Twitter for #collectivenouns, and indexes them for posterity. You can even vote on your favourites by ‘ReTweeting’ them!

  2. kidgeezer | January 21, 2010 at 5:29 pm | Reply

    Kind of fun but I’ll stick with James Lipton’s (yes, that James Lipton, The Actors Studio) classic, An Exaltation of Larks .

  3. sanscravat | September 24, 2012 at 11:28 am | Reply

    We’ve been big fans of Lipton’s book for ages — but have found few, if any, specific collective nouns for plants. We decided to remedy that situation with a book of photos and botanical wordplay (consisting, all to frequently, of truly terrible puns — don’t say we didn’t warn you).
    It’s called “Terms of Vegery,” and there are sample entries at: http://tinyurl.com/335scsl

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