a brood of chickens
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- jellyfish
- Also spelled
- Brode (1486)
Subject · Animals → Birds
Chickens
A group of chickens can be called: brood · peep · clutch · flock
- Collective nouns
- 4
- Category
- Animals
- Subcategory
- Birds
- High confidence
- 2
- Book of St Albans
- 2
Collective nouns for chickens
a peep of chickens
- Context
- chicks
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited
- Also used for
- chicks
- Also spelled
- Pepe (1486)
a clutch of chickens
- Context
- eggs
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited
- Also used for
- eggs
1 source
a flock of chickens
- Confidence
- low
- Attestation
- wikipedia-uncited
- Also used for
- albatrosses, bats, birds, camels, goats, guinea fowl, hawks, sheep, ducks, geese +5 more
- Also spelled
- Flocke (1486)
1 source
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