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Synonyms for sawbones

Grammar : Noun
Spell : saw-bohnz
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɔˌboʊnz

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Définition of sawbones

Origin :
  • "surgeon," 1837, slang, from verbal phrase; see saw (v.) + bone (n.).
  • As in physician : noun person trained in medical science
Example sentences :
  • That any whipper-snapper of a sawbones should tell me to go to my room.
  • Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace
  • The Sawbones have give it that name, I'm aware, but of course that's their fun.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 » by Various
  • Don't come to me: go t' a sawbones and have your arm cut off.
  • Extract from : « Hard Cash » by Charles Reade
  • But I kin go to Bullhide for the sawbones in it, and bring him back, too.
  • Extract from : « Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch » by Alice B. Emerson
  • That sawbones feller is right when he says the progress will be slow.
  • Extract from : « With Edged Tools » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • Having really excited him, instead of soothing him, Sawbones Salter had to pretend that you would excite him.
  • Extract from : « A Terrible Temptation » by Charles Reade
  • The boys buried him decent while the sawbones was cuttin' what was left of my arm away, an' puttin' me to sleep with dope.
  • Extract from : « Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls » by Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)
  • I am lying here like a poor log because that sawbones and you girls make me.
  • Extract from : « The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies » by Grace Brooks Hill
  • For many years he had carried in his body a Spanish bullet which the sawbones of his guerrilla band had been unable to extract.
  • Extract from : « The Enemies of Women » by Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • I was afterwards informed by my "sawbones" friend that play was stopped directly I left.
  • Extract from : « Sharps and Flats » by John Nevil Maskelyne

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