[영어] 동물의 '복수'

우리 말의 나무 한 그루, 풀 한 포기만큼 복잡한 영어의 동물'들'

<동물의 '복수'>

마음 먹고 찾아보니 실로 대단하다. 동물의 무리를 일컫는 단어, 용어. 워낙 복잡한 체계이다보니, 영어권 지능검사나 SAT, TOEFL 의 어휘력 테스트 문제로 출제되기도 한다. 

우리말은 사물마다 '세는' 말이 다양한 걸로 아는데 (나무 한 그루, 풀 한 포기 등) 영어는 '무리'를 칭하는 단어, 용어가 독특하다. 다음은 그 목록. 너무 길어서 대충 각주 달다가 중단, 그러나 내친 김에...

- Antelope: a herd (안텔롭 사슴. 무리, 떼.)

- Ants: a colony or an army (개미. 집단, 군대?)

- Apes: a shrewdness (유인원. 영민함,이라는 단어)

- Baboons: a troop (바분 원숭이. 군단, 군대)

- Badgers: a cete (배저. 시트. '고래'의 의미도 있다고 함.)

- Bass: a shoal (농어. 모래톱, 여울목..)

- Bats: a colony, cloud or cauldron

- Bears: a sloth or sleuth; Cubs: a litter

- Beavers: a colony

- Bees: a swarm

- Boar: a sounder

- Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy

- Camels: a caravan

- Caterpillars: an army

- Cats: a clowder, glaring, pounce, nuisance or clutter; Kittens: a litter or kindle; Wild cats: a destruction

- Cattle: a herd or drove

- Cheetahs: a coalition

- Chickens: a brood or peep; Chicks: a clutch or chattering

- Clams: a bed

- Cobras: a quiver

- Colts: a rag

- Cows: a kine, drove, herd or fold; twelve or more cows are a flink

- Coyotes: a band

- Cranes: a sedge

- Crocodiles: a float or bask

- Crows: a murder

- Deer: a herd

- Dogs: a pack or cowardice; Puppies: a litter

- Dolphins: a pod

- Donkeys: a drove

- Doves: a dule

- Ducks: a brace, paddling or team

- Eagles: a convocation

- Elephants: a herd or parade

- Elk: a gang or herd

- Emus: a mob

- Falcons: a cast

- Ferrets: a business or fesnyng

- Finches: a charm

- Fish: a school, shoal, run, haul or catch

- Flamingos: a stand or flamboyance

- Flies: a swarm, hatch or business

- Foxes: a skulk or leash

- Frogs: an army or a colony

- Geese: a gaggle or flock, a skein when in flight

- Giraffes: a tower

- Gnats: a cloud or horde

- Goats: a herd, tribe or trip

- Goldfinches: a charm

- Goldfish: a troubling

- Gorillas: a band

- Grasshoppers: a cloud

- Greyhounds: a leach

- Hares: a down or husk

- Hawks: a cast or kettle

- Hippopotami: a bloat or thunder

- Hogs: a drift or parcel

- Horses: a team or harras

- Hounds: a pack, mute or cry

- Hyenas: a cackle

- Jaguars: a shadow

- Jellyfish: a smack or brood

- Kangaroos: a troop or mob

- Larks: an ascension or exaltation

- Lemurs: a conspiracy

- Leopards: a leap

- Lice: a flock

- Lions: a pride

- Locust: a plague or cloud

- Magpies: a tiding or tittering

- Mallards: a sord

- Manatees: an aggregation

- Mares: a stud

- Martens: a richness

- Minnows: a steam

- Moles: a labor

- Monkeys: a barrel, cartload or troop

- Mules: a pack, barren or span

- Nightingales: a watch

- Otters: a family, romp or raft

- Owls: a parliament

- Oxen: a team or yoke

- Oysters: a bed

- Parrots: a pandemonium or company

- Partridges: a covey

- Peacocks: a muster or ostentation

- Penguins: a colony

- Pheasants: a nest, nide or bouquet

- Pigeons: a flock or flights

- Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder, litter or team (older pigs)

- Ponies: a string

- Porcupines: a prickle

- Rabbits: a colony or warren

- Raccoons: a gaze

- Rats: a colony, pack, swarm or mischief

- Rattlesnakes: a rhumba

- Ravens: an unkindness

- Rhinoceroses: a crash

- Sharks: a shiver

- Sheep: a drove or flock

- Skunks: a stench

- Snakes: a nest or knot

- Sparrows: a host

- Squirrels: a dray or scurry

- Starlings: a murmuration

- Stingrays: a fever

- Storks: a mustering

- Swans: a bevy or lamentation, a wedge when in flight 

- Tigers: an ambush or a streak

- Toads: a knot or knab

- Trout: a hover

- Turkeys: a gang, posse or rafter

- Turtles: a bale or nest

- Vultures: a venue

- Wasps: a pledge

- Weasels: a colony, gang or pack

- Whales: a pod, school or gam

- Wolves: a pack or route

- Wombats: a wisdom

- Woodpeckers: a descent

- Zebras: a zeal

A swarm of drones

A bed of clam(s)