sawbones
Americannoun
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sawbones,
plural
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sawboneses
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sawbones
First recorded in 1830–40; saw 1 + bone + -s 3 ( def. )
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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2012
Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.
From Time Magazine Archive
In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robert Morley and Alastair Sim bear small resemblance to the characters Shaw had in mind, but in company with John Robinson and Felix Aylmer they make a ludicrously Aristophanic chorus of sawbones.
From Time Magazine Archive
The giving of expert evidence on such occasions was the only opportunity which the young sawbones had of earning money.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
"Well, I done just like you told me to, and them cussed sawboneses won't let me go back no more," Shade reported to Pap Himes that evening.
From The Power and the Glory by Arthur Ignatius Keller
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