Well, most women might be a bit angry...

[Jolly]

https://www.foxnews.com/travel/florida-flight-attendant-husband-guitar-tryst

[jon-nyc]

Guy needs to keep better track of her schedule.

[taiwan_girl]

Is this a misprint or an English word I do not know:

"A Florida stewardess flew into a fury after walking in on her husband with another woman, wiling the wife to attack her spouse and smash a guitar into a wall."

What is "wiling" or what word were they trying to use here?

[jon-nyc]

It's an unusual word but it's correct. It means to entice or induce.

[Catseye3]

That word -- or at least that meaning of it -- was new to me too, TG.

The "wiling" I know is like in "wiling away the time".

[xenon]

I think this whole article is just an excuse to use the phrase "flight of fury"

[Mik]

I don't think anyone was trying to wile her into doing that. Seems like for that word to apply there would have to be someone doing the wiling.

[Catseye3]

As opposed to the whaling, which is what she did.

[Jolly]

@Catseye3 said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

As opposed to the whaling, which is what she did.

Only if her husband was seriously overweight.

[Mik]

Now she's blubbering about being arrested.

[George K]

@Catseye3 said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

That word -- or at least that meaning of it -- was new to me too, TG.

The "wiling" I know is like in "wiling away the time".

Wouldn't that be "'Whiling' away the time?"

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whiling

[Catseye3]

@George-K said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

Wouldn't that be "'Whiling' away the time?"

You're right!

Grammarist: "The phrase meaning to pass time idly is while away. It is older and more logical than wile away. But because the second phrase occurs so frequently, it is now included in many dictionaries and is rarely considered incorrect.

But wile is mainly a noun—meaning (1) trickery, cunning; (2) a disarming or seductive manner; (3) or a trick intended to deceive—and it’s occasionally used as a verb meaning to influence by wile. None of these definitions has anything to do with idly passing time, so wile away doesn’t make logical sense. Again, however, it is now a conventionalized misspelling, and only the most persnickety readers will think it wrong."

Well, dang. I've been misusing it my whole life.

[Jolly]

Stick around kid, we'll larn you something.

[Catseye3]

@Jolly said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

Stick around kid, we'll larn you something.

You already larned me about the NYT. Thanks a lot for nuttin'.

[89th]

@Jolly said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

@Catseye3 said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

As opposed to the whaling, which is what she did.

Only if her husband was seriously overweight.

Nah he was a fitness instructor and bartender. He’d never meet chicks that way...

[89th]

@Catseye3 said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

That word -- or at least that meaning of it -- was new to me too, TG.

Same here. New word to me too, @taiwan_girl

[89th]

@xenon said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

I think this whole article is just an excuse to use the phrase "flight of fury"

Good catch! The author also enjoyed the word Tryst in the title.

The author’s last name is Puhak. I wonder if she also likes tea.

[89th]

@Jolly said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

@Catseye3 said in Well, most women might be a bit angry...:

As opposed to the whaling, which is what she did.

Only if her husband was seriously overweight.

Guess he’d be a sperm whale amirite

[Larry]

There was a blonde stewardess who experienced the same thing. She ran into another room and got a pistol, ran back to the bedroom and put the gun to her head. Her husband told the woman in bed with him "see, I told you she was nuts". His blonde wife said "Shut up! You're next!!"