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The Human Comedy

A gallery of human habits, vanities, relationships, and peculiarities, lovingly—and sometimes mercilessly—named.

  • an acne of adolescentsSource: Lipton 1977
  • an avunculus of alumniSource: Lipton 1977
  • a flight of ArabsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a score of bachelorsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a buzz of barfliesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a bevy of beautiesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a fighting of beggarsSource: Lipton 1977; Book of St. Albans
  • a rood of boorsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a bellyful of boresSource: Lipton 1977
  • a vial of BorgiasSource: Lipton 1977
  • A blush of boysSource: Book of St. Albans
  • a leer of boysSource: Lipton 1977
  • a rascal of boysSource: Lipton 1977
  • a passel of bratsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a fumble of checkgrabbersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a brood of chessplayersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a cluster of churlsSource: Lipton 1977; Book of St. Albans
  • a strangle of city-dwellersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a dash of commutersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a shriek of contestantsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a threatening of courtiersSource: Lipton 1977
  • An incredibility of cuckoldsSource: Book of St. Albans
  • an incredulity of cuckoldsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a split of debtorsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a delirium of debutantesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a pot of dietersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a frost of dowagersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a load of drunksSource: Lipton 1977
  • a stone of drunks (In England)Source: Lipton 1977
  • a pound of EnglishmenSource: Lipton 1977
  • a prance of equestriansSource: Lipton 1977
  • a phalynx of flashersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a peck of FrenchmenSource: Lipton 1977
  • a gross of GermansSource: Lipton 1977
  • a giggle of girlsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a slaver of gluttonsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a lie of golfersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a store of gypsiesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a herd of harlotsSource: Lipton 1977; Book of St. Albans
  • an expectation of heirsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a trip of hippiesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a magnum of hit menSource: Lipton 1977
  • a parlay of horseplayersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a blast of huntersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a pint of IrishmenSource: Lipton 1977
  • an invasion of IsraelisSource: Lipton 1977
  • an explosion of ItaliansSource: Lipton 1977
  • a wheeze of joggersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a caper of kidsSource: Lipton 1977
  • A ravel of knavesSource: Book of St. Albans
  • a riffraff of knavesSource: Lipton 1977
  • A bevy of ladiesSource: Book of St. Albans
  • a plague of localsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a trance of loversSource: Lipton 1977
  • A rage of maidensSource: Book of St. Albans; Lipton 1977
  • a band of menSource: Lipton 1977
  • A host of menSource: Book of St. Albans; Lipton 1977
  • a cc of MexicansSource: Lipton 1977
  • a horde of misersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a consternation of mothersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a mutter of mothers-in-lawSource: Lipton 1977
  • a no-no of nanniesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a nerve of neighborsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a pallor of night studentsSource: Lipton 1977
  • an ogle of office boysSource: Lipton 1977
  • a concatenation of orgiastsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a leap of overachieversSource: Lipton 1977
  • A congregation of peopleSource: Book of St. Albans
  • a stud of poker playersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a descent of relativesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a disworship of ScotsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a fifth of ScotsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a puree of straphangersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a transplant of suburbanitesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a raft of swimmersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a bed of swingersSource: Lipton 1977
  • a watch of SwissSource: Lipton 1977
  • a gush of sycophantsSource: Lipton 1977
  • a skulk of thievesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a drowse of underachieversSource: Lipton 1977
  • a peel of vacationersSource: Lipton 1977
  • an ambush of widowsSource: Lipton 1977
  • A non-patience of wivesSource: Book of St. Albans
  • an impatience of wivesSource: Lipton 1977
  • a gaggle of womenSource: Lipton 1977
  • a crunch of wrestlersSource: Lipton 1977

About this collection

These expressions come from the collection’s records labelled Lipton 1977 and Book of St. Albans. They include historical and fanciful group names. Source labels are preserved; individual usage histories have not been assessed. Favorites are saved only in this browser.

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