a watch of nightingales
A group of nightingales.
- Confidence
- high
- Attestation
- historical-source, wikipedia-cited, wiktionary-attested
- Also spelled
- watche (1486)
7 sources
- Wikipedia - List of animal names
- Elliot Stock - The Boke of Saint Albans
- Oxford Dictionaries - What do you call a group of ...?
- J. White - The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
- Wiktionary - watch
- Wiktionary - Appendix:English collective nouns
- Book of Saint Albans (1486) - The companyes of bestys & foules