Anyone know what to call a group of snakes? (herd? pride? etc.)

This isnt exactly trivia as I dont know the answer but I quit facebook and am thinking Id have better luck asking LL-ers anyway. The internet doesnt seem to know.)

The USGS says its a "[url=http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/about/faqs/animals/names.htm#reps]nest.[/url]"

The San Diego Zoo also adds [url=http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/got_questions_groups_list.html]"bed" "den" "knot" and "pit."[/url])

I like knot! So that is what it shall be called.)

I was going to volunteer "shitstorm" but it looks like the question has been answered.)

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I recommend a Jackson of snakes.)

[quote:f1e05ff036]I was going to volunteer "shitstorm" but it looks like the question has been answered.[/quote:f1e05ff036]
I guess it depends on context i.e. I think that were you to find a knot of snakes in your bed and neither you nor a loved one put them there then "shitstorm" would probably be the preferred nomenclature.)

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Im going to suggest a "medusa." Or a "yikes.")

How about a yikes of spiders?)

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Although I like some of the clever suggestions above Ive often heard[url=http://www.squidoo.com/collective-nouns-for-reptiles-and-amphibians#module25186972]a slither of snakes[/url].)

I have it on the highest authority that the proper terminology is a "cheney of snakes".)

Now that Timothy Leary Jerry Garcia and Hunter Thompson are all dead who is left to serve as the "highest authority"? Is any member of Phish famous enough to fill that role in his own right?)

Would you believe that James Lipton (yes [i:8f92a046a1]the[/i:8f92a046a1] James Lipton) wrote the definitive volume on collective nouns?

[url]http://www.amazon.com/Exaltation-Larks-Ultimate-James-Lipton/dp/0140170960[/url]);

[quote:11e8975c11="hubbardm"]Would you believe that James Lipton (yes [i:11e8975c11]the[/i:11e8975c11] James Lipton) wrote the definitive volume on collective nouns?[/quote:11e8975c11] Cool!

But looking at the index he is strangely silent on the slippery subject of snakes! (Alliteration initially unintended but then gratuitously exaggerated.))

OK, I know this is a long-dead thread, but I've just stumbled upon it and can't resist. So for anyone who still cares, regarding the definitive term, I turn your attention to one of my most favouritest of bands, the indomitable Wire, and their song: A Serious of Snakes (http://www.amazon.com/A-Serious-Of-Snakes/dp/B000XN25PM). 'Nuff said.

As long as the thread has been picked up again: a peanut brittle can of snakes.

How about a Slitherin'? (hat-tip to Joanna Rowling)

This has long been my go-to for collective nouns. It suggests bed, knot, nest, pit, or trogle (?), but rattlesnakes get their own: rhumba.

I'm proud to have found so far no Google results for a suggestion of my own, a goiter of jabiru.

I'm itching to read Lipton's book. A score of bachelors, huh? But I love this site best because of the People category (a neverthriving of jugglers!), and especially because of something in the Some That Might Be category: a fraid of ghosts.

I like this site... Have to remember to bookmark it when I get home!

I think I would go with a "coil" of snakes.

I can't even remember why I first asked this question--I'm sure I was writing something, but what?

Well, if it ever comes up again, I think I'll go with knot. And I bookmarked the link. Thanks!

Definitely a NOPE of spiders.

I'm proud to have found so far no Google results for a suggestion of my own, a goiter of jabiru.

Do we have collective nouns for inanimate objects?
If not then how about a Goiter of shields?

Ever since 1981, I would say the definitive collective noun for snakes would be "jones".

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