wrinkle2 (ringkl)

slang, of wrinklel, n. woman, already beginning to Howells, Annie Kilburn, iv. [A particular use, orig. According to Skeat, it is a dim. of ME. wrink, wrenk, They are too experte in loue, hauing learned in this time of their long peace euery wrinckle that is to be seene or imagined. Lyly , Euphues and his England, p. 389. Philip, when thou goes court in', come t' me, and a'll give thee many a wrinkle . Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, xii. Oh, you are up to this wrinkle , are you? Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 559.