Cellective noun for Zombies

[YE OLDE PIRATE]

A Gaggle of ghouls.....
A warren of Walkers....
A Drove of dead.....

[Hudomonkey]

I like Molly's idea of Geeks

So maybe a Gaggle of Geeks
Or Droplet of dead
A wibble of walkers

[dustpuffs]

A shitload of shamblers.

[thesporkman]

An orgy of the dead.

Wait...

[Motordead]

I was shot down on another thread about this, but I still support them being called a horde.

horde/hôrd/
Noun:
A large group of people.
An army or tribe of nomadic warriors: "Tartar hordes".

herd/hərd/
Noun:
A large group of animals that live together or are kept together as livestock.
Verb:
Move in a particular direction.

Horde just makes more sense IMO

[Fabrimuch]

Originally Posted by Motordead

I was shot down on another thread about this, but I still support them being called a horde.

horde/hôrd/
Noun:
A large group of people.
An army or tribe of nomadic warriors: "Tartar hordes".

herd/hərd/
Noun:
A large group of animals that live together or are kept together as livestock.
Verb:
Move in a particular direction.

Horde just makes more sense IMO

I think herd makes more sense. A horde is mostly for armies, but zombies are more like animals than humans anyway, mindlessly following one direction until something to eat crosses their path.

[Master of Aeons]

Originally Posted by Motordead

I was shot down on another thread about this, but I still support them being called a horde.

horde/hôrd/
Noun:
A large group of people.
An army or tribe of nomadic warriors: "Tartar hordes".

herd/hərd/
Noun:
A large group of animals that live together or are kept together as livestock.
Verb:
Move in a particular direction.

Horde just makes more sense IMO

Right. Zombies aren't people, and a herd is defined as a bunch of zombies that all "move in a particular direction".
*shoots you down*

[Motordead]

Originally Posted by Master of Aeons

Right. Zombies aren't people, and a herd is defined as a bunch of zombies that all "move in a particular direction".
*shoots you down*

Well zombies are technically people, they're just dead people. When somebody dies their species didn't change. It's a human corpse, whats different when someone dies from the zombie infection? They're still human, just dead.

I would also say that an undead horde is definitely an army, with a specific target in mind- anything living. The definition "move in a particular direction" refers to being moved by an outside source such as a rancher herding cattle into a pen, if they move on their own it isn't considered being herded, such as hearing a noise and going towards it.

[HelloCthulhu]

I kind of like "A shamble of zombies." it has a ring to it.

[thestalkinghead]

zombie horde. THE END

[TrueXus]

Originally Posted by dustpuffs

A shitload of shamblers.

Haha, this one made me burst out laughing.

[dustpuffs]

Originally Posted by TrueXus

Haha, this one made me burst out laughing.

Sweet! I made someone laugh!

[Milosuperspesh]

i'm going with the ' an oh shit '

for me they would be

target practice, ammo sponges, a really bad smell,

but a term that really nails what they are is

the walking dead

[The Brave]

To me, the most accepted term is a "zombie horde".

But on www.FVZA.org website, groups of zombies are sometimes called a "stagger of zombies."

[funyahns]

I like scourge for the collective. Herd makes sense in a couple definitions. But I always think of herds as a defense mechanism not a hunting party. Most herd animals are predated upon.

[Devlonir]

Originally Posted by funyahns

I like scourge for the collective. Herd makes sense in a couple definitions. But I always think of herds as a defense mechanism not a hunting party. Most herd animals are predated upon.

You could say that zombies are predated upon and collect in herds to survive. A single zombie vs a single person almost always comes out bad for the zombie, as is seen a lot in TWD. I think Dale was the first person to be killed by a zombie one on one, and he was a weak old man.


So basicly, zombies are actually able to procreate (by biting humans) and feed (by eating humans) better in a herd than they do when alone or in pairs. Also, herding seems to be in their instinct, much like it is in the instanct of herd animals.

Still though, I like horde more as a collective noun. It's simply the classic.

[Jokieman]

Zed or Geek Horde.