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sawbones

[saw-bohnz] / ˈsɔˌboʊnz /


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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2012

Answers the sawbones: "Not unless your seeing-eye dog goes lame."

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ichi went to the Old Man, 'oo was breathin' heavy, and examined 'im like 'e was a sure enough sawbones.

From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

"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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