Medieval sportsmen invented collective nouns for everything from owls to otters. Less well known are the terms they invented for people — this list is taken from Joseph Strutt, The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, 1801:

• a state of princes
• a skulk of thieves
• an observance of hermits
• a lying of pardoners
• a subtlety of sergeants
• a multiplying of husbands
• an incredibility of cuckolds
• a safeguard of porters
• a stalk of foresters
• a blast of hunters
• a draught of butlers
• a temperance of cooks
• a melody of harpers
• a poverty of pipers
• a drunkenship of cobblers
• a disguising of tailors
• a wandering of tinkers
• a malapertness of peddlers
• a fighting of beggars
• a blush of boys
• a nonpatience of wives
• a superfluity of nuns
• a herd of harlots