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What is the collective noun for Leprechauns?

Cross-Eyed Penguins
13-06-2006, 14:09
What is the collective noun for a group of leprechauns? I'm trying to think of what it is but I don't know if one exists.

If one exists, could someone tell me what it is.
If not, could people make a suggestion for what it should be.
Cluichstan
13-06-2006, 14:11
A mess.
Yootopia
13-06-2006, 14:11
What is the collective noun for a group of leprechauns? I'm trying to think of what it is but I don't know if one exists.

If one exists, could someone tell me what it is.
If not, could people make a suggestion for what it should be.
A posse?

It sounds quite nice. No idea what the real one is.
Deep Kimchi
13-06-2006, 14:12
Lepers.
[NS]Liasia
13-06-2006, 14:13
A bolus
Fangmania
13-06-2006, 14:15
A leprecob of leprecorns...
Quaon
13-06-2006, 14:20
Leprecha.
Teh_pantless_hero
13-06-2006, 14:21
Leprechauni.
Psychotic Mongooses
13-06-2006, 14:23
Irish?
Damor
13-06-2006, 14:27
A leprecob of leprecorns...hehe, best one so far..
Cross-Eyed Penguins
13-06-2006, 14:28
I think most people are thinking along the wrong lines. Collective nouns as in a herd of cows or a murder of crows.
Fangmania
13-06-2006, 14:29
hehe, best one so far..

Yeah thanks, I thought so to...but I somehow think I have a bias...
Cluichstan
13-06-2006, 14:30
I think most people are thinking along the wrong lines. Collective nouns as in a herd of cows or a murder of crows.

I noticed the same problem.
Deep Kimchi
13-06-2006, 14:32
I noticed the same problem.
An assful of leprechauns.
Cross-Eyed Penguins
13-06-2006, 14:34
An assful of leprechauns.

The precise measure being how many leprechauns you can fit on the one donkey without any falling off.
Londim
13-06-2006, 14:35
Gold obsessed drunken mob?
Greater Alemannia
13-06-2006, 14:35
A fiddledeedee of leprechauns.
Cabra West
13-06-2006, 14:36
As far as I know they are solitary...
Seathorn
13-06-2006, 14:36
Gold obsessed drunken mob?

Maybe just a mob?
Cluichstan
13-06-2006, 14:38
As far as I know they are solitary...

C'mon, you've gotta figure leprechauns party! ;)
Zatarack
13-06-2006, 14:39
A party.
Mythotic Kelkia
13-06-2006, 14:39
a charm.
Cabra West
13-06-2006, 14:40
C'mon, you've gotta figure leprechauns party! ;)

Not even leprechauns like to be leprechauns, it would appear...
Cross-Eyed Penguins
13-06-2006, 14:43
Not even leprechauns like to be leprechauns, it would appear...

Must be all the shoe making.
Cluichstan
13-06-2006, 14:44
Must be all the shoe making.

That's elves. :p
Cross-Eyed Penguins
13-06-2006, 14:46
That's elves. :p

Depends on what you read. Both of them are too clever by a half though.
SilverCities
13-06-2006, 15:00
a gang, a twit, a snootful
The Aeson
13-06-2006, 15:04
A brogue?

Perhapse a horde.

Or a problem.
Megaloria
13-06-2006, 15:07
A hallucination.
Cabra West
13-06-2006, 15:09
I guess if you absolutely have to find a collective noun, it might be a pub.
Demented Hamsters
13-06-2006, 15:09
I think most people are thinking along the wrong lines. Collective nouns as in a herd of cows or a murder of crows.
or a load of bollocks.
Rambhutan
13-06-2006, 15:17
A Mobile Alabama
Deep Kimchi
13-06-2006, 15:18
A shitload.
Jeruselem
13-06-2006, 15:20
A clover! ;)
Compulsive Depression
13-06-2006, 16:12
After tirelessly going through every hit provided by google for '"collective noun" for +leprechauns' (well, the digests.) the only one I could see suggested was "clove". Ah well, there were only five pages anyway.

Source (http://www.thetales.co.uk/lofiversion/index.php?t676.html). I have a feeling it was made up.
Egg and chips
13-06-2006, 17:16
A Guiness Glass full of Leprecorns
Poliwanacraca
13-06-2006, 17:28
I second "charm" and "brogue" as good choices.
Cross-Eyed Penguins
14-06-2006, 08:59
Thanks for the ideas everyone.
Malfeasence
14-06-2006, 19:37
How about a Pint?
Ifreann
14-06-2006, 19:39
A shower or a shitload.
Hydesland
14-06-2006, 19:42
Of all the useless bits of information you seek to find out, that has to be the most useless.

Anyway it's the Irish.
Equus
14-06-2006, 19:44
a charm.
I was going to say a 'frolic' of leprecauns, but I like a 'charm' of them better.
Not bad
14-06-2006, 19:45
A napoleon complex of leprechauns
Saige Dragon
14-06-2006, 19:46
How about a Pint?

Nah dude, a keg.
Desperate Measures
14-06-2006, 20:04
A Brannigan of Leprechauns
A Souse of Leprechauns
Rubiconic Crossings
14-06-2006, 20:10
A mound of Leprechauns

A rainbow of Leprechauns
Greyenivol Colony
14-06-2006, 20:15
After tirelessly going through every hit provided by google for '"collective noun" for +leprechauns' (well, the digests.) the only one I could see suggested was "clove". Ah well, there were only five pages anyway.

Source (http://www.thetales.co.uk/lofiversion/index.php?t676.html). I have a feeling it was made up.

Well, it does say that that is the leprechauns prefered collective noun.

Also: Collective Nouns are single-handedly the weirdest thing about the English language.