What's the correct collective noun? Suggestions please!
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A flutter?
Posted by: Big Chip Dale | May 13, 2007 at 06:30 PM
A fanclub of course...
Posted by: Quink | May 13, 2007 at 07:13 PM
A Fidget?
(well mine would...)
Posted by: Jane Henry | May 13, 2007 at 07:42 PM
How dumb am I? You type flutter and I offer flutter... So, how about a squadron? Formation flying of course.
Posted by: Big Chip Dale | May 13, 2007 at 08:39 PM
How about "a frenzy"? Which they were for a brief but very squeally period.
Posted by: Dave Hill | May 13, 2007 at 09:07 PM
a giggle or a glitz
Posted by: Littlebear | May 13, 2007 at 11:04 PM
or a flitter or a fey of faeries
Posted by: Fairymum | May 14, 2007 at 06:14 PM
Some great ideas here! Fairymum's suggestion of a "fey of faeries" is closest but mixes up two terms.
FAYS, or FAIRIES OF ROMANCE are beings of the human race, but endowed with powers beyond those usually allotted to men. These, of course, are not to be confused with that other branch of Fairy Folk, namely ELVES or POPULAR FAIRIES.
Faerie signifies the people of Fairy-land and comes as close as you can get to a collective noun for fairies. [Unfortunately, a "faerie of fairies" doesn't trip off the tongue with ease, does it?]
But it's all here in black and white. It must be true!
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tfm/tfm003.htm
Posted by: swimmer6foot4 | May 16, 2007 at 04:44 AM