sawbones
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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
In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Rouen physicians treated with utter scorn this surgeon, this barber fellow, this mere sawbones.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
"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
