sawbones

IPA: sˈɔboʊnz

Examples of "sawbones" in Sentences

'I thought everybody know'd as a sawbones was a surgeon.'
‘I thought everybody know’d as a sawbones was a surgeon.’
My regular sawbones is out of town, so I'm seeing someone new.
The English Surgeon: Storyville10.45pm, BBC4The sawbones in question is Henry Marsh, a renowned British neurosurgeon.
This, though, is a government which has the finesse of an 18th-century sawbones operating in the days before anaesthetic.
The sawbones backed away, along with the fans closest to the scene, and the cops handled Chase a lot less delicately than they would have otherwise.
The sawbones was a plump little cove with gooseberry eyes and trailing whiskers who prodded my injury and pronounced it ugly, but seemed to think I ought to be able to hobble.
"sawbones"; for both the organ and the body are not only living, but they are still feverish and extremely sensitive; it is important to avoid too great irritation; inflammation of any kind would be dangerous.