Wheedling

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Oct 31, 2003, at 7:35 AM, Geoff Nathan wrote:

> Found on C|Net News this morning.  Presumably a malapropism, but
> who knows....
>
> Google recently started wheedling down a long list of investment
> banks it approached earlier this month about underwriting the
> offering, which could be worth from $15 billion to $25 billion, the
> executives said.

it took me a long while to get back to it, but it's now been entered
in the eggcorn database:

   http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/400/wheedle/

(#300 in the database!)

arnold