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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Caught in the wilds of Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/51976073.html), used to describe a girl.
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Context absent in the top post:
“Seemed silly to me because she is a professional model and <b>waifer thin<\b> but whatever. ”
The standard usage is “wafer thin,” but this variant makes a nice allusion to “waif.”
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