Mauger or also known as mawga the Jamaican Patois word for 'meagre', is a term used in rural Jamaica for a thin woman.
Any disruption in this flow or lack of bodily fluids is considered to be unhealthy and contributes to sickness.
Being thin is associated with bad health, and is a factor which affects social relationships.
According to Elis J. Sobo, "A slim person, especially a slim woman, is called a mauger - meagre and powerless - as if not alive at all, and like a mummy or an empty husk, far beyond that powerfully dangerous state of decay.
A thin, dry body reveals a person's non-nurturant nature and his or her lack of social commitment" (p. 262).