Sentence:  Growing up in Dún Laoghaire in the 1980s, I remember all the hard men were sinewy, scrawny lads, hence the local description ‘more meat on a seagull'. The reason was simple: they were undernourished. [...] The young <WSD>wans</WSD>, despite a couple of babies, were more or less the same, pinched, flat-chested and drawn. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A girl or woman.