单词 | sawbones |
释义 | sawbones slang.|ˈsɔːbəʊnz| [f. saw v.1 + bone n.] A surgeon.
1837Dickens Pickw. xxx, ‘What, don't you know what a Sawbones is, Sir’, enquired Mr. Weller; ‘I thought every body know'd as a Sawbones was a Surgeon.’ 1874R. Tyrwhitt Sketch. Club 166 The vivisectors and sawboneses. 1898Rider Haggard Doctor Therne 196, I found her the affianced bride of a parish sawbones. Hence ˈsawbonesing vbl. n. (nonce-wd.).
1870R. Broughton Red as Rose I. 196 If I had..had to earn my bread quill-driving..or sawbones-ing. |

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