neverthriving
English
editEtymology
editFrom never + thriving. Included in a list of collective nouns in the Book of Saint Albans, published in 1486.
Noun
editneverthriving (plural neverthrivings)
- (very rare, often humorous) A group of jugglers.
- 2012 October 30, Jeff Strickler, “Juggling is bouncing back”, in Star Tribune:
- Minnesota Neverthriving (15th-century jargon for a company of jugglers) meets in south Minneapolis.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:neverthriving.